Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Capriccio with Figures in a Landscape Made in Italy, Europec. 1720-30 Marco Ricci, Italian (active Venice, Veneto, Rome, and England) 1676 - 1730 Opaque watercolor with gold paint decoration on fan-shaped parchment (animal skin), mounted down Currently not on view 1986-132-1 Purchased with the Alice Newton Osborn Fund and the J. Stogdell Stokes Fund, 1986 |
LabelThis poetic drawing is one of many that Marco Ricci executed in the last decade of his career, when he worked extensively in opaque watercolor on parchment. Ricci's aptitude for delicate atmospheric effects is evident in the softly diffused lighting of the background and the reflections in the water. |
