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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2008.258
People
Carlo Maratti, Italian (Camerano, Italy 1625 - 1713 Rome, Italy)
Title
Lucretia
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th-18th century
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/320974

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount
Dimensions
37.3 x 24.6 cm (14 11/16 x 9 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: black ink, lower right: No. 116[?]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Artemis, Paris; Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston, acquired in 2002; gift to Harvard Art Museum, 2008

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz
Accession Year
2008
Object Number
2008.258
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Commentary
Maratti was the most important artist working in later seventeenth-century Rome. Although he was primarily a painter, he was also a prolific designer of prints, sculpture, and silver. He received commissions and honors from across Europe and even became the perpetual Principe of the Roman Accademia di San Luca (an unprecedented honor). After his training with Andrea Camassei and Andrea Sacchi, he also became a consummate draftsman. This drawing--not yet connected to a known project, but probably a design for a print--is a perfect example of his robust classicism.

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