Selected Drawings

Carlo Maratta

(Camerano, 1625 - Rome, 1713)

recto: Clelia Crosses River Tiber, c. 1710
verso: Figures

pen, wash and brown ink and red chalk
verso: Red chalk
196 x 169 mm (77.17 x 66.54 inches)

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Carlo Maratta

(Camerano, 1625 - Rome, 1713)

recto: Clelia Crosses River Tiber, c. 1710
verso: Figures

pen, wash and brown ink and red chalk
verso: Red chalk
196 x 169 mm (77.17 x 66.54 inches)

Re: 0255

Provenance: Private collection, France

Price: p.o.a.

Description:

The present drawing is connected to, and can be considered a preparatory study for the left side of the sheet by Carlo Maratta in the Devonshire Collection at Chatsworth (inv. no. 595).
The entire composition has been engraved by Andrea Procaccini (1671-1734) in (C. Le Blanc, Manuel de l'Amateur d'estampes. Paris, 1854-1888, III, p. 256, no. 12). No final composition has been yet found by Maratta.

Tha attribution has been confirmed by Dr. Stella Rudolph (written comunication 7 October 2008).