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Landscape with Travellers, Two Riding in a Carriage Driven by a Postilion and a Third on Horseback behind
Creator
Marco RicciItalian Artist · 1676–1730
All works by this person →Born to a family of artists, Marco Ricci first studied with his uncle Sebastiano Ricci. After murdering a gondolier in a brawl, Marco fled to Dalmatia, where he spent four years apprenticed to a landscape painter. By 1705 he was in Milan working with Alessandro Magnasco, absorbing his free handling of paint. After trips to Florence and Rome, he went to the Netherlands and studied Dutch landscape p
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- about 1720
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink with brown wash, over black chalk
- Culture
- Italian
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Marco Ricci focused this evocative, carefully finished landscape on people going about their daily business in the spacious outdoors. Two gentlemen ride in comfort, chatting animatedly as the postilion riding on the near horse guides the team of horses. By using a lighter tone for the middle distance, where another group of travelers descends the hill, Ricci conveyed the expansive feeling of traveling by carriage in the open air and hinted at the balmy atmosphere. Drawing even more lightly, he suggested a town in the background as a destination. Scholars are uncertain whether Ricci made this composition as a study for a painting or print or an independent, finished work of art. He repeated the same scene with differing details and a higher viewpoint in a later painting. Two etchings, including one made posthumously by Ricci's nephew, repeat the drawing's design almost exactly.
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