SEBASTIANO RICCI (BELLUNO 1659-1734 VENICE)
The Temptation of Saint Anthony
oil on canvas
36¹⁄₂ x 50 cm. (92.7 x 126.8 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Van Ham Kunstauktionen, Cologne, 25 March 1995, lot 1077, as 'Circle of Sebastiano Ricci' (68,000 DM).

L. Muti, 'Qualche nuovo dipinto di Sebastiano Ricci e alcune considerazioni sulla metamorfosi del suo linguaggio fino al 1708', in L. Muti and D. de Sarno Prignano (eds.), A tu per tu con la pittura: studi e ricerche di storia dell’arte, Faenza, 2002, pp. 253 and 269.
A. Scarpa, Sebastiano Ricci, Milan, 2006, p. 249, no. 299, and p. 466, fig. 232.

Chioggia, Museo Diocesano di Arte Sacra, Nel segno della Serenissima. Capolavori dell’arte veneta dal XIV al XVIII secolo, 18 March-9 April, 2006.
Monte-Carlo, Maison d’Art, La Pittura Eloquente, 16 June-16 July 2010, no. 20.

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