Marco Ricci, 1676–1729, Italian, active in Britain (1708–10; 1711–16)
Title:
Rehearsal of an opera
Date:
ca. 1709
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
18 1/4 × 22 3/4 inches (46.4 × 57.8 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.524
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
genre subject | landscape | bonnets (hats) | fan (costume accessory) | dresses | wigs | piano | cello | violin | double bass | chitarrone | harpsichord | painting (visual work) | paintings | musical instruments | men | women | opera (discipline) | music | art | soprano | singers | performers | Italian | instrumentalists | singing | dog (animal) | animal | performance
Associated Places:
United Kingdom | England | Greater London | London
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Hogarth and Europe (Tate Britain, 2021-11-01 - 2022-03-20)Canaletto, Tiepolo and the eighteenth-century Venetian art (Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2018-09-24 - 2019-01-21)Canaletto, Tiepolo and the eighteenth-century Venetian art (Palazzo Ducale, 2019-02-23 - 2019-06-09)Grand Tour - The Lure of Italy in the Eighteenth Century (Tate Britain, 1996-10-10 - 1997-01-06)Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)The Consul Smith Collection - Masterpieces of Italian Drawing from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle (Kimbell Art Museum, 1989-11-11 - 1990-01-21)British Comic Art 1730 - 1830 (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988-10-14 - 1988-12-04)
Publications:
Canaletto & Venezia, Museum Musei, Milano, p. 64, cat. 11.06, NJ18.C17 A12 2019 (LC) Oversize (YCBA)Ching-Jung Chen, The early Georgian conversation piece : Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, 2001, pp. 79, 130, 593-99, cat. no. 145, Available online : ProQuest Dissertations & ThesesMalcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 186-187, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Patricia Crown, British comic art, 1730-1830, from the Yale Center for British Art, Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, 1988, pp. 5, 6, 28, NC1477 G63 C76 (YCBA)Catherine Loisel, Eblouissante Venise: Venise, les Arts et l'Europe au XVIIIe Siècle, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, p. 130-131, cat. 86, N6921.V5 E25 2018 (LC) Oversize (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Among the whores and thieves : William Hogarth and The beggar's opera, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1997, pp. 44, 46, 103, no. 26, NJ18 H67 A15 B4 1997 (YCBA)