Bernardo Minozzi
1699-1769
Travelers in an Italian Landscape with a River in the Middle Distance
15 1/8 x 21 1/16 inches (384 x 535 mm)
Brown wash and opaque lead white watercolor, over black chalk on light brown paper.
1961.35
Purchased as the gift of the Fellows.
Notes
Drawn entirely with the brush, this and the majority of other large, finished drawings by Marco Ricci probably were made as independent works of art, intended for sale to collectors. --Exhibition Label, from "Tiepolo, Guardi, and Their World: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Drawings"
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Numbered at lower right, in graphite, "5".
Associated names
Ricci, Marco, 1676-1729, Formerly attributed to.
Bibliography
Adams, Frederick B., Jr., comp. Twelfth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1962. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1963, p. 83.
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 164.
Stampfle, Felice, and Jacob Bean. Drawings from New York collections. III: The eighteenth century in Italy. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1971, no. 26, repr.
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 164.
Stampfle, Felice, and Jacob Bean. Drawings from New York collections. III: The eighteenth century in Italy. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1971, no. 26, repr.
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