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Canal in Venice
Inscriptions
Inscribed lower left: Rico
Provenance
Cora B. Block (1878–1973), Chicago [acc. to Committee on Earlier Painting’s minutes, December 6, 1973]; by descent to her children Joseph L. Block, Leigh B. Block, Mrs. Oscar Serlin and Mrs. Daniel Saidenberg in 1973; given to the Art Institute, 1973.
Exhibition history
Washington D. C., George Washington University Art Department, Exhibition on 19th Century Spanish Art, 1982–1983, no cat.
Publications
Mark-Allan Roglán Kelley, “La pintura española del siglo XIX en las colecciones públicas norteamericanas: Una primera aproximación,” vol. 3 (Ph.D. diss., Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2001), no. 288.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Martin Rico y Ortega (Spanish, 1833–1908)
- Date
- 1880s
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 76.2 × 46.2 cm (29 3/4 × 18 in.); Framed: 86.1 × 56.2 × 5.1 cm (33 7/8 × 22 1/8 × 2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- nineteenth century
- Place
- Spain
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift of Joseph L. Block, Leigh B. Block, Mrs. Oscar Serlin, and Mrs. Daniel Saidenberg in memory of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Block
- Accession no.
- 1973.766
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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00000990
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