Camillus Rescuing Rome from Brennus

ca. between 1716 and 1720

Sebastiano Ricci Italian, 1659-1734

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

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About the Artwork

Title Camillus Rescuing Rome from Brennus

Artwork Date ca. between 1716 and 1720

Artist Sebastiano Ricci

Life Dates 1659-1734

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on canvas

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

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Henry Reinhardt & Son, Inc.

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 27.537

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Provenance

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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Published References

Derschau, J. von. Sebastiano Ricci. Heidelberg, 1922, p. 147 (fig. 121), p. 152, no. 36.

Heil, W. "A Painting by Sebastiano Ricci." Bulletin of the DIA 9, no. 4 (January 1928): pp. 39-41 (ill.).

Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 1930, cat. 189 (ill.).

An Exhibition of Venetian Painting, 1600-1800. Exh. cat., Durlacher Brothers. New York, 1934, cat. 10

Goering, M. "Sebastiano Ricci." Thieme-Becker, Kunstler Lexicon. 1934, vol. 38, p. 53.

Venetian Paintings of the Eighteenth Century. Exh. cat., Knoedler & Co. New York, 1936, cat. 23.

Scheyer, E. Baroque Painting (gallery guide). Detroit, 1937, pp. 24-26 (fig. 9).

Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1944, p. 110, no. 189.

Morassi, A. "Una Mostra del Settecento Veneziano a Detroit" Arte Veneta 7, nos. 25-28 (1953): pp. 49-62, pp. 50-51 (fig. 40).

Richardson, E.P. Venice, 1700-1800; An Exhibition of Venice and the Eighteenth Century. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts and John Herron Museum of Art. Detroit and Indianapolis, 1952, pp. 47-48, no. 59 (ill.).

Donizelli, C. I Pittori Veneti del Settecento. 1957, p. 204.

Milkovitch, M. Sebastiano Ricci and Marco Ricci in America. Exh. cat., Brooks Art Gallery and University of Kentucky Art Gallery. Memphis and Lexington, 1965, cat. 17, p. 15 (fig. 30). [ca. 1720.]

Richardson, E.P., ed. Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Arts, 3rd ed. Detroit, 1966, p. 102, (ill.).

Donizelli, C. and G. Pilo. I Pittori del Seicento Veneto. 1967, p. 350.

Rosenberg, Pierre. Venise aux dix-huitième siècle, Peintures, dessins, et gravures des collections françaises. Exh. cat., Musée de l'Orangerie. Paris, 1971, p. 143, cat. 218.

Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-19th Century Italian Paintings in North American Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972, p. 174.

Daniels, J. Sebastiano Ricci. 1976, pp. 1, 24, cat. 79 (fig. 2).

Daniels, J. L'opera completa di Sebastiano Ricci. 1976, p. 118, no. 337 (ill.).

Bettagno, A. "Precisazioni su Anton Maria Zanetti Il Vecchio e Sebastiano e Marco Ricci." Atti del Congresso Internazionale di Studi su Sebastiano Ricci e il suo tempo. 1976, p. 85, p. 90 (fig. 78).

Knox, George. "Some Notes on Large Paintings Depicting Scenes from Antique History by Ricci, Piazzetta, Bambini & Tiepolo." Atti del Congresso Internazionale di Studi su Sebastiano Ricci e il suo tempo. 1976, p. 98.

Pilo, G.M. "Tre Problemi Ricceschi" Atti del Congresso Internazionale di Studi su Sebastiano Ricci e il suo tempo. 1976, pp. 166, 168, 174, footnote 43.

Pilo, Giuseppe Maria. Sebastiano Ricci e la Pittura Veneziana del Settecento, Problemi e studi. Pordenone, 1976, p. 96, note 130

Martini, E. La Pittura del Settecento Veneto. Udine, 1982, p. 479, note 60

Udine, Villa Manin di Passariano. Sebastiano Ricci. 1989, p. 116, no. 32, (ill.) p. 117.

Bissell, R.W., A. Derstine, and D. Miller. Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2005, pp. 9, 168-171, cat. no. 55.

Scarpa, A. Sebastiano Ricci. Milan, 2006, p. 178, cat. 91 (fig. 515).

Derstine, Andria. "The Detroit Institute of Arts and Italian Baroque Painting." Buying Baroque: Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America, ed. Edgar Peters Bowron. University Park, 2017, p. 97.

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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.