Sebastiano Ricci

Sebastiano Ricci (Belluno 1659-1734 Venice) Pan oil on canvas 39¼ x 34¼ in. (100 x 88 cm.) Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 5 July 1995, lot 75 (£32,200). Ricci employed a favorite model to pose for Pan: his bald head and coarse, rustic features reappear in a number of Ricci's paintings from the middle of the 1720s, including The Patience of Job, a painting documented to 1725 and recorded by Daniels in the Medioli-Masotti Collection (J. Daniels, Sebastiano Ricci, 1976, no. 330, p. 95, fig. 227), and a drawing - very close to the present painting - in Windsor Castle (ibid., fig. 229).

Sebastiano Ricci (Belluno 1659–1734 Venice) Study of a man with a stick, inscribed “Seb[astia]no Ricci” with pen and brown ink at lower margin, numbered 147, red chalk, on laid paper, detail studies for the head and the figure of the same man on the reverse, 28,5 x 19,5 cm, browned, somewhat stained, mounted, unframed, (Sch)

Sebastiano Ricci (Belluno 1659-1734 Venice) Pan oil on canvas 39¼ x 34¼ in. (100 x 88 cm.) Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 5 July 1995, lot 75 (£32,200). PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION Ricci's colorful and robust depiction of Pan, the God of Woods and Fields, stresses his pointed ears, sharp horns and goat's legs, appropriate to his traditional allegorical role as the personification of Lust. He holds on his lap the syrinx, or reed pipes, whose music he entrusted to seduce the nymphs and Maenads of Arcadia, his happy realm. Ricci employed a favorite model to pose for Pan: his bald head and coarse, rustic features reappear in a number of Ricci's paintings from the middle of the 1720s, including The Patience of Job, a painting documented to 1725 and recorded by Daniels in the Medioli-Masotti Collection (J. Daniels, Sebastiano Ricci, 1976, no. 330, p. 95, fig. 227), and a magnificent drawing--very close to the present painting--in Windsor Castle (Daniels, fig. 229).

LOT 173 SEBASTIANO RICCI BELLUNO 1659 - 1734 VENICE THE TEMPTATION OF SAINT ANTHONY oil on canvas 30,000—40,000 GBP measurements note 85 by 121 cm.; 33 1/2 by 47 5/8 in. oil on canvas PROVENANCE Private Collection, Modena. LITERATURE AND REFERENCES A. Scarpa, Sebastiano Ricci, Milan 2006, p. 248, cat. no. 295,reproduced p. 506, plate 320.

Lot 305 S. Rici (Italian 18th-19th Century) Ascension of a Bishop Signed S. Rici and dated indistinctly l.r. Oil on canvas 18-3/4 x 13-3/4 in (47.6 x 35 cm) Estimate $1,000-1,500 Weschler's provides written condition reports, upon request, forany lot in our auctions. Such a condition report is provided as acourtesy to our clients and should in no instance replace firsthand inspection by a prospective buyer or his/her agent. Allproperty is sold "as is" in accordance with the terms set forth inparagraph 3 of Conditions of Sale. Neither Weschler's nor theconsignor makes any express or implied warranty or representationas to the condition of any lot offered for sale, and no statementmade at any time, whether oral or written, shall constitute such awarranty or representation.