Marco Ricci

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Marco Ricci
1676-1729
Landscape with a Winding River
Pen and brown ink and wash, on blue laid paper, altered to gray.
15 13/16 x 22 1/16 inches (401 x 562 mm)
Gift of János Scholz.
1983.39
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Watermark: three crescents (similar to Heawood 876).

Provenance: 
Armand-François-Louis de Mestral de St. Saphorin, Switzerland; Reichlen Gallery, Lausanne; Marco Marmier, Geneva; from whom purchased ca. 1960 by János Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
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Saint-Saphorin, Armand-François-Louis de Mestral de, 1738-1805, former owner.
Marmier, Marco, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography: 

One Hundred Italian Drawings from the 14th to the 18th Centuries from the János Scholz Collection. New York : New School Art Center, 1971, no. 74.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 293-294.

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