Carlo Maratti

Study of a woman seen in profile, head and shoulders, and a separate study of her left arm with a slight indication of its upper contour studied at the top, her hand holding a cloth

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Carlo Maratti

(Camerano 1625 - 1713 Rome)

Study of a woman seen in profile, head and shoulders, and a separate study of her left arm with a slight indication of its upper contour at the top, her hand holding a cloth

Red chalk heightened with white chalk on blue paper

388 by 280 mm

Andrea Procaccini (1671-1734), Rome and Madrid,

by inheritance to his widow Rosalia O'More, who sold the collection in 1775 to the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando;

Ignacio Hermosilla Sandoval (1718-1794), ( bears his paraph);

sale, London, Christie's, 8 July 2008, lot 41;

with Colnaghi, London, Master Drawings, 2010, no. 11

where acquired by present owner

L. Lorizzo, 'Carlo Maratta e la Chiesa di Santa Maria dell'Anima. Il restauro della pala di Giulio Romano e la Nascita della Vergine per la Sacrestia', Rivista d'Arte, 3, 2013, p. 247, note 21;

S. Rudolph and S. Prosperi Valenti Rodinò, Carlo Maratti (1625-1713) tra la magnificenza del Barocco e il sogno d'Arcadia, Dipinti e Disegni, Rome 2024, vol. II, p. 755, no. 149.6, reproduced p. 756, fig. 149.6