[Allegorical drawing with maidens and cherubs] : [drawing].

Description

Title: [Allegorical drawing with maidens and cherubs] : [drawing].
Creator: Maratti, Carlo, 1625-1713, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1713]
Publication Place: Rome?
Abstract: Graphite drawing of Diana rising from her bed, surrounded by her attendants
Description: Title devised by curator.
On mount, in pencil in an unknown hand: "From the Chaloner Smith Collection. Autograph at back. C. Maratti, engraved."
Inscribed in lower right corner of image: "Carlo Maratti."
On verso of drawing, written in pencil in an unknown hand: "Carlo Maratti--Horace Walpole's Collection 1822."
In another unknown hand on verso of drawing: "C. Maratti."
Watermark: IVilledary.
Formerly housed as part of the SH Contents collection.
Possibly one of the drawings described by A.T. Hazen in his Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no. 3567-3569.
Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Provenance: Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale day viii, lot 45; London Sale 1262. Struss and Brown, 1959, by W.S. Lewis,
Extent: 1 drawing ; sheet 31.6 x 41.8 cm, mounted to 38.6 x 49.8 cm.
Language: Italian

Genre: In art
Watermarks (Paper)
Allegorical drawings Italy Rome
Graphite drawings Italian 17th century
Material: graphite, sheet 12 7/16 x 16 7/16 in., mounted to 15 1/4 x 19 5/8 in. and outlined in gold with gold, red and green lines. and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Diana (Roman deity)
Subject (Topic): Women
Putti
Subjects: Diana (Roman deity) > In art
Women
Putti
Italy > Rome
Italian > 17th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Carlo Maratti, Allegorical Drawing with Maidens and Cherubs. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.