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    Ariccia - I (La Riccia, near Albano, Italy)

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    Ariccia - I (La Riccia, near Albano, Italy)
    Ariccia - I (La Riccia, near Albano, Italy)
    Ariccia - I (La Riccia, near Albano, Italy)
    Gloucester City Museum and Art Gallery
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Ariccia - I (La Riccia, near Albano, Italy)
    Date
    c.1752-56 (undated)
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    Metric: 53 x 80.9 cm
    Imperial: 20 7/8 x 31 7/8 in.
    Collection
    Gloucester City Museum and Art Gallery. To license images click here.
    Accession Number
    00302
    Wilson Online Reference
    P46B
    Description
    On the left a road runs uphill through a wood towards distant buildings. On the right are framing trees and a rocky outcrop with a cave below. Three figures are seen at its mouth and a prominent milestone stands to their left. A dead branch lies in the right foreground and the scene is set against a bright cloudy sky above.
    Exhibited
    Gloucester 2014 (unnumbered)
    Provenance
    E.H. Robson; Stanley Marling, J.P., Littleworth House, Amberley, Gloucestershire; bequeathed to Gloucester City Museum and Art Gallery, 1963
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Techniques and materials
    The effect is dark overall, with a dull varnish. There is a pink ground under the sky, which is empty apart from the clouds.
    Subject
    Located between the lakes of Nemi and Albano on the Via Appia Nuova, south-east of Rome, Ariccia was celebrated for its groves, thought to have been the hunting-grounds of the goddess Diana. The area was a haunt of Wilson's seventeenth-century exemplar, Gaspard Dughet.
    Related Drawings
    D224 View at Ariccia, near Albano, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
    D282 A Church at Ariccia, Private Collection, England
    D282A Landscape near Rome, Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery
    D326 Ariccia near Rome, The British Museum (1881,0212.24)
    Related Prints
    E72/11 Thomas Hastings after Wilson, View of Lareci near Rome, The British Museum (1854,0708.68) and other impressions
    Versions
    See 'Links' tab
    Related Paintings
    P87 Ariccia - II, Collection of the Earl of Pembroke, Wilton House, Wiltshire
    Critical commentary
    Differs in detail from P46 and has three figures in the cave mouth, approximating it to P46A.The middle figure just inside the cave is wearing a brimmed hat and receiving something from the figure outside. They may intended as children. The figures themselves are roughly painted but the distance is sensitive and specific. W.G. Constable described this painting as a somewhat heavy-handed repetition.
    Bibliography
    WGC, p. 193, pl. 67b (2)
    Condition/Conservation
    Dimensions framed: 80.5 x 108 cm. The gilded classical frame is damaged, especially in the upper left corner. Kate Lowry has noted: Paint film covered by a thick discoloured varnish layer and surface dirt. UV examination shows some retouching over varnish along lower edge. A pink ground is visible beneath the sky tone and around foliage. Foreground figures are poor quality even for Wilson, but distant monastery and foliage are good.
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    2021-02-09 00:00:00

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • View at Ariccia, near Albano, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
    • A Church at Ariccia, Private Collection, England
    • Landscape near Rome, Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery
    • Ariccia near Rome, The British Museum

    Prints

    • Thomas Hastings after Wilson, View of Lareci near Rome, The British Museum

    Versions

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Ariccia - I, Private Collection, England
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Ariccia - I, Tate, London

    Paintings

    • Ariccia - II, Collection of the Earl of Pembroke, Wilton House, Wiltshire

    Exhibitions

    • Gloucester City Museum & Art Gallery, 2 January - 1 March 2014

    Biographies

    • Stanley Marling (1864-1963)

    Documents

    • William George Constable, Richard Wilson
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