Sebastiano RICCI (Belluno, 1659 - Venice, 1734) The Drunkenness of Silenus Pen and brown ink, brown wash over black pencil lines Sketch for an assembly of characters on verso Without frame The Drunkenness of Silenus, pen and brown ink, brown wash, by S. Ricci 8.07 x 11.88 in. 20.5 x 30.2 cm Provenance: Herbert List Collection (Hamburg, 1903-Munich, 1975), his collection stamp (L.4063) lower right; Collection Bernhard Funck (Malchin, 1895-Munich, 1993), his stamp (L.3835) on the reverse lower right; Collection Rossella Gilli, Paris Our drawing is technically very close to a bacchanal sheet in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Venice1. 1. See Anna Serra, Atti del Congresso internazionale di studi su Sebastiano Ricci e il suo tiempo, colloquium proceedings, Milan, 1976, p. 94, no. 88, repr. Sebastiano RICCI (Belluno, 1659 - Venice, 1734) 20.5 x 30.2 cm Our drawing is technically very close to a bacchanal sheet in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Venice1. 1. See Anna Serra, Atti del Congresso internazionale di studi su Sebastiano Ricci e il suo tiempo, colloquium proceedings, Milan, 1976, p. 94, no. 88, repr.