Name: MARTIN RICO Y ORTEGA (SPANISH, 1833–1908)
Brand: Venice
Price: 60000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

MARTIN RICO Y ORTEGA (SPANISH, 1833–1908)
Venice
signed 'Rico' (lower left)
oil on canvas
32 x 50¹⁄₈ in. (81 x 127.5 cm.)

with Galerie A.M. Reitlinger, Paris.
with Vetmas Antigüedades, Buenos Aires, where purchased by the present owner circa 2000.

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Lot Essay

Born in El Escorial in Madrid in 1833, Martin Rico y Ortega won a government scholarship as a young artist to travel to Paris, where he was influenced by Charles François Daubigny and the other artists of the Barbizon School. In 1870, at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, the artist returned to his native Spain, but other parts of Europe still held great appeal for him, and in 1872 Rico travelled to Italy, making a formative first trip to Venice, which captivated his imagination. Even after his return to Paris in 1879, the artist continued to spend his summers in Venice, renting a palazzo from which he could paint scenes of his beloved city. Rico would often paint en plein air while traveling the canals in a gondola, sketching the buildings and bridges as he saw them from the water.