MARCO RICCI | LANDSCAPE WITH A COURTYARD WITH RURAL BUILDINGS AND PEASANTS

Probably Anton Maria Zanetti (1679-1767);

With Agnews, London, (label on the back, no. 47836);

Sale, Sotheby's, Monaco, 26 June 1983, lot 434 (together with the following lot)

A. Scarpa Sonino, Marco Ricci, Milan, 1991, p. 150, cat. T 46, reproduced p. 308, fig. 260 

This and the following work are dated by Annalisa Scarpa Sonino around 1720-1730.

According to Scarpa Sonino this composition can be compared with a tempera at the British Museum,¹ which shows a similar staffage and a large tree in the middle.

A drawing in pen and ink and wash with a similar rural building is preserved in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle, while another in pen and ink is in a private collection.²

Marco Ricci must have liked this motif with a rural building with a porch on the side, which he adapted within a number of different views. 

1. London, The British Museum, inv. no. 1964,1010.1

2. Windsor, Windsor Castle, Royal Library, inv. no. 01145; Sonino, op. cit., p. 308, respectively figs. 261 (detail), 262