Collection

1659 BACCHUS AND ARIADNE

Sebastiano Ricci,
1659 Belluno – 1734 Venice, attributed
BACCHUS AND ARIADNE
Oil on canvas. Old relining.
84 × 71 cm.
Handwritten note on the back of the stretcher.
A slightly smaller version of the present painting with reduced figural staffage and numerous minor changes – for example in the attire of Bacchus – is held at the National Gallery in London (inv. no.
NG851).
Provenance:
Nando Peretti collection.
Cesare Lampronti collection.