2008.258: Lucretia

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

Permissions

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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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