Camillus Rescuing Rome from Brennus, ca. between 1716 and 1720

  • Sebastiano Ricci, Italian, 1659-1734

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 17 1/8 × 23 1/8 inches (43.5 × 58.7 cm)
  • 21 3/8 × 27 5/8 × 2 1/8 inches (54.3 × 70.2 × 5.4 cm)

Gift of Henry Reinhardt & Son, Inc.

27.537

On View

  • European: Grand Tour of Italy-Venice, Level 2, South

Department

European Painting

by 1808, Charles Small Pybus

June 2, 1808, sold by (Christie's, London, England) lot 39

1808, purchased by JC, possibly James Christie II [for 5 pounds 5 shillings]

by 1840, John Douglas

August 26-27, 1840, sold by (Winstanley, at Gryn Castle, near Hollywell in Flintshire, Wales) lot 50

purchased by Agnew [for 12 1/2 guineas]

Thomas Agnew (Manchester, England)

1927, (Henry Reinhardt & Son, Inc., New York, New York, USA)

1927-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Sebastiano Ricci, Camillus Rescuing Rome from Brennus, ca. between 1716 and 1720, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Henry Reinhardt & Son, Inc., 27.537.