Master Paintings Part II

Master Paintings Part II

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Carlo Maratta and workshop

Madonna Reading Surrounded by Musical Angels

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

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Carlo Maratta and Workshop

Camerano 1625 - 1713

Madonna Reading Surrounded by Musical Angels


oil on canvas

canvas: 27 ¾ by 22 ⅜ in.; 70.5 by 57.0 cm

framed: 35 ¼ by 30 in.; 89.5 by 76.0 cm

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 30 October 1991, lot 195 (as follower of Carlo Maratta);

Thereafter acquired by the present collector.

This late work by Carlo Maratta, possibly executed with some workshop assistance, depicts one of the artist's most popular compositions: the Madonna (alternatively identified as Saint Cecilia) holding a book and accompanied by musical angels. An autograph version (Alupka State Palace and Park Museum Reserve, inv. no. 86), commissioned by Niccolò Maria Pallavicini circa 1705 and later owned by Sir Robert Walpole, was widely reproduced through an eighteenth-century engraving by Robert Strange.1 the existence of numerous copies and studio replicas in museum collections further testify to the success of this lyrical religious composition.2


We are grateful to Dr. Dario Beccarini for supporting the attribution to Carlo Maratta, possibly with some workshop intervention.


1 Robert Strange after Carlo Maratta, Te Deum LaudamusLondon, British Museum, inv. no. V,10.24.

2 See, for example, Digne-les-Bains, Musée Gassendi, inv. no. 742, and Dijon, Musée Magnin, inv. no. 1938 E 426.