DIMENSIONS: (unframed) 28 x 18 ins
SIGNATURE: Signed lower right RICO on steps.
MEDIUM:Â Oil on canvas
Veduta Veneziana, Il Baciano San Marco e La Salute
P.O.A.
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Provenance:
Private collection, United States
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Biography:
Martin Rico Y Ortega was born in Madrid on 12 November 1833 and died in Venice on 13 April 1908. He
was a friend of the French landscape painter Charles-Francois Daubigny and was one of the first Spanish
artists to paint his subjects in situ.In 1872, accompanied by Mariano Fortuny, he toured Italy, where he
became impressed by the splendour of Venice and he captured the architecture and light in innumerable
paintings, such as this one.
From 1879, by which time he had made Paris his permanent home, Ortega spent his summers in Venice,
renting a palazzo in which to paint. He would often work sitting in a gondola sketching buildings and
bridges as seen from the water.
In 1878, the art critic Paul Lefort wrote of Ortega in La Gazette des Beaux-Arts: “Although a fanatic when
it comes to light and an aficionado of rare and augmented colour tonalities which in his works resemble
precious stones, he refrains from overstepping the limits of human vision.The Grand Canal of Venice, the
Slaves Wharf, his views of Rome, of Toledo, of the Escorial and of Granada are [.] inimitable morsels
which reveal his talents in composition as well as his care in execution” (quoted in Carlos Gonzalez and
Montse Marti, Spanish Painters in Rome 1850-1900, Madrid, 1987, pp182-3).
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