The INVESTinART Collection · painting · 82 × 126 cm
Coastal Landscape with a Port City and Boats
1676 Belluno–1730 Venice
About the work
A vast, harmoniously composed coastal veduta — a fortified city with towers and bell towers overlooking the sea, a rocky cove with boats and small figures in the foreground, and mountain ranges dissolving into the silvery tones of the background. The composition unfolds in depth through a modulated succession of perspective planes, and the whole canvas is enveloped in a diffused, natural light — it is precisely these experiments with light and atmosphere that number among the innovations Marco Ricci brought to landscape painting, heralding eighteenth-century Venetian vedutismo.
The work comes from a prestigious Austrian private collection and bears a historical attribution to the circle of Marco Ricci, confirmed by striking compositional and stylistic affinities with the master's autograph works — from the tree motif and the rocky spur in the foreground to the characteristic light effects, now fully legible after a recent conservation cleaning. This Old Master work of nearly three hundred years is sold in excellent condition, in a gilded frame and with a certificate of authenticity.
Catalogue details
- Artist
- Marco Ricci
- Year
- 1690 – 1730
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions (unframed)
- 82 × 126 cm
- Dimensions (framed)
- 93 × 137 cm
- Provenance
- Art gallery, Italy
About the artist
Marco Ricci
1676 Belluno–1730 Venice
The founder of eighteenth-century Venetian landscape painting: born in Belluno on 6 June 1676, he learned his craft from his uncle, the celebrated Sebastiano Ricci, later collaborating with him on palace decorations in Florence and Rome. He won fame with his capricci — fantasy compositions of Roman ruins coveted by English aristocrats on the Grand Tour — and also worked as a stage designer in Venice and London.
His art fused the influence of Dutch landscapists with the drama of Salvator Rosa and Magnasco; he died in Venice on 21 January 1730, and the civic museum of his native Belluno preserves a major group of his works. Our two pieces — a harbour landscape and a capriccio with ruins — represent precisely the two genres that made his name.
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“Coastal Landscape with a Port City and Boats” — Marco Ricci