Carlo Maratta
CHRIST HOLDING AN ORB, HIS RIGHT ARM RAISED IN BENEDICTION
Details & Cataloguing
Old Master Drawings including the Collection of Professor Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann
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New York
New York
Carlo Maratta
CAMERANO 1625 - 1713 ROME
CHRIST HOLDING AN ORB, HIS RIGHT ARM RAISED IN BENEDICTION
Black chalk;
bears inscription in pen and brown ink at the upper margin: Giesù Nostro Saluatore
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bears inscription in pen and brown ink at the upper margin: Giesù Nostro Saluatore
Provenance
Sale, New York, Christie's, 22 January 2004, lot 46
Catalogue Note
Nicholas Turner confirmed the attribution to Maratta, upon seeing the original, at the time of the Christie's sale in 2004 (see Provenance). Turner dates the drawing to late in Maratta's career and compares it with the Study for a Statue of St. Matthew in the British Museum.1 The British Museum sheet is one of series of studies for statues destined for the niches in the nave of San Giovanni in Laterano, Rome, commissioned by Pope Clement XI.
1. N. Turner, Italian Drawings in the British Museum: Roman Baroque Drawings c.1620 to c.1700, London 1999, vol. II, no. 193
Suggested Lots
Old Master Drawings including the Collection of Professor Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann
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New York
New York
