Caricatures of Two Men and a Woman
n.d.
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown and gray wash, over traces of graphite, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
16.8 × 23.8 cm (6 5/8 × 9 3/8 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
82161
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Marco Ricci · 1676–1730
Marco Ricci (1676–1730) was born on June 6 in Belluno, in the Republic of Venice, into a family steeped in artistic tradition as the nephew of the renowned Baroque painter Sebastiano Ricci. He received his first instruction in art from his uncle, likely during a period in Milan from 1694 to 1696, before accompanying Sebastiano to Venice in 1696, from which he soon fled amid personal troubles. Ricc...