Sebastlano Ricci attributed to Ten Heads of Men. Pen and brown ink and wash on cream laid paper. 212 x 183mm: 8.625 x 7.375 inches. Armsof Amsterdam watermark Heawood 356 Ex- collection Agnes Mongan, Cambridge, and Nissman, Abromson, Ltd., Brookline.

Sebastlano Ricci attributed to Ten Heads of Men. Pen and brown ink and wash on cream laid paper. 212 x 183mm: 8.625 x 7.375 inches. Armsof Amsterdam watermark Heawood 356 Ex- collection Agnes Mongan, Cambridge, and Nissman, Abromson, Ltd., Brookline. Similar drawings attributed to Ricci are in the Lehman Collection, Metropolitan Museumof Art, New York see Shaw/Knox, Italian Eighteenth Century Drawings in the Robert Lehman Collection, New York, 1987, p. 90, no. 70 , and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris (see Brugerolles, Les dessins Venitiens des collections de I'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1990, pp.86-9, nos. 41 and 42 The drawing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art shares its provenance with the present work. One of the 2 sheets in Paris has the same watermark as the present drawing. As Emmanuelle Brugerolles has pointed out, the expressions and extravagant hats recall the engraved work of Jacques de Gheyn II, whose prints Ricci would have known through the collection of his friend, Antonio Maria Zanetti. Furthermore, Ricci had married the Dutch-born Meddalena vander Meer in 1696 and traveled to the Low Countries in 1716 E9000- 12000 [See Color Plate Vi]