Important Old Master Paintings

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Lot 56
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* Sebastiano Ricci Belluno 1659 - 1734 Venice

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Description

  • Sebastiano Ricci
  • Adoration of the Shepherds
  • oil on canvas

Provenance

Hans Wendland, Berlin;
His sale, Berlin, Ball and Graupe, April 24, 1931, lot 11;
Lore and Rudolf Heinemann;
Their deceased sale, London, Christie's, July 7, 2000, lot 80.

Literature

M. Levey, The Later Italian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, London 1964, p. 100, under no. 646;
J. Daniels, Sebastiano Ricci, Hove 1976, p. 68, no. 213;
J. Daniels, L'Opera Completa di Sebastiano Ricci, Milan 1976, no. 172;
A. Rizzi, in Sebastiano Ricci, exhibition catalogue, Villa Manin di Passariano 1989, p. 162.

Catalogue Note

The composition of the present painting relates closely to Ricci's altarpiece of circa 1705 at Saluzzo for which there is a modello, with the same arched format, in the Royal Collection at Hampton Court.

Another version of the present composition, formerly in the Caspari collection, Munich, is rejected as a copy by Daniels (see Literature below).  It is possible that the present work was the model for the engraving by Pietro Monaco, which records an identical composition of rectangular format, successively in the collections of Antonio Maria Zanetti, Gaspare Diziani and Consul Smith.