The Wavy Sea Oil on Canvas Italy XVII-XVIII Century

Oil on canvas.
As signed by the label on the back, the painting was presented athe 'Venetian Baroque Painting Exhibition' of 1943, with the title 'in porto al tramonto' and the attribution to Marco Ricci.
This attribution can be motivated by the executive ability, which through rapid and loose brushstrokes.
It manages to fully render the natural reality of the stormy sea with sensivity.
In this regard, see the similar images published by Rodolfo Pallucchini in the studies 'Studi ricceschi: contributo a Marco published in the magazine Arte veneta (vol.
IX, 1955).
Ricci's landscape and marine productions (which, however, were not his most extensive production) are characterized by powerful and emotional lights, by dry and twisted trees, rocks and towers, cumulus clouds that suddenly break open in vague flashes of blue, foaming waves, a complex repertoire that transfigures nature into a dramatic and restless representation, in which man is also inserted as an integral element.
Also in this painting we find these highly dramatic but at the same time scenographic elements, with some human figures, three men on a small boat in the foreground, who are barely distinguishable from the sea and the rocks that surround them, as well as the ship on the left sinking engulfed by the sea.
Restored and relined, the painting is presented in a period frame.