Auction 319: Old Masters & 19th Century Art | 17 November 2023
Carlo Maratta (auch Maratti)

Study of two putti

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Carlo Maratta (auch Maratti)
1625 Camerano – Rom 1713
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Red chalk on laid paper, laid down on laid paper. (Around 1674). 21.2 x 31.5 cm (backing paper: 23.5 x 33.9 cm). The attribution of this work has been kindly confirmed by Dieter Graf, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome, and Dr. Stella Rudolph, Florence (see written correspondence dated 15.5.1991, copy).

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Provenienz:
Privatbesitz, Deutschland.

Description

Preliminary study for the figures painted in grisaille in the lower right spandrel of the ceiling fresco “Triumph of Clementia” in the Palazzo Altieri in Rome (1674). The collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (inv. no. 65.206) houses a study in black chalk of two further figures in grisaille of this fresco frame. – Some minor foxmarks. Inconspicuous handling dents along the margins, slight handling traces. In good condition considering its age.

Period

15th-18th Century

Technique

Works on paper

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