Circle of Sebastiano Ricci (Belluno 1659 - Venice 1734) - Time and Youth.

Circle of Sebastiano Ricci (Belluno 1659 - Venice 1734) - Time and Youth. 59 x 43 cm (without frame) - 70 x 54 cm (with frame). Oil on canvas, in carved and gilded wooden frame. Sebastiano Ricci was among the protagonists of Venetian painting at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries, an artist of Emilian training whose career developed between Venice, Rome, Milan, Florence, and the European courts of Vienna and London. His painting, capable of combining the lessons of the great 16th-century Venetian masters with a luminous palette and a Rococo-style decorative taste, made him a point of reference for the entire generation of painters active in Venice in the first decades of the century, including Giambattista Pittoni himself, who partly inherited his stylistic legacy. The painting presented here, small in size and with a rapid and free execution, is attributable to the type of preparatory sketch, likely intended for a larger composition. The scene depicts a winged elderly figure, an allegory of Time, facing a seminude young female figure, draped in a mantle of ochre and white tones, seated on a rocky outcrop in a wooded landscape. The palette, centered on luminous blues and bright reds, the airy arrangement of the figures in space, and the fluidity of the brushwork are attributable to the pictorial culture of Sebastiano Ricci and his circle, whose executory freedom and chromatic luminosity the painting reflects, while the soft rendering of the flesh and the taste for compositional elegance bring the work closer to the style of Giambattista Pittoni. Condition report: Relined canvas. Good state of conservation of the pictorial surface, with traces of old restorations. All shipments within the EU are free and professionally packed. This item is sold with a legally valid certificate of authenticity. Further details on the condition report are available upon request. Viezzi Arte guarantees quality and professionalism at competitive prices, contact us at [email protected] or via WhatsApp at +39 3402841279. Message to non-Italian buyers: This work has not yet obtained the free export certificate from Italy, issued by the Superintendence for Cultural Heritage, which attests that the work does not belong to Italian cultural heritage and can therefore be freely exported. The regulations in force from 2026 provide for reduced times for works with a declared value of less than €50,000, established at the discretion of the expert commission: on average 2-3 weeks from the submission of the request. All costs related to this procedure are included in the price. Disclaimer Rendering: The lifestyle images are generated by AI for illustrative purposes and may not respect the actual proportions of the artwork.