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Lot Essay
This picture relates to a series of collaborative works attributed to Maratti and the flower painter Franz Werner von Tamm, executed after the latter arrived in Rome in 1685. Together they painted a set of six overdoors for the wealthy banker Francesco Montioni for his house in via del Parione in 1692-4. These pictures were so admired by the Marchese Nicolò Maria Pallavicini that he ordered Maratti to produce another group of four similar works for the Palazzo Pallavicini in Rome.
Such was the popularity of these highly decorative overdoors that Maratti's large studio produced a number of copies for clients eager to emulate the latest fashions in Roman interior design. The original works have now been dispersed; however, four of the six Montioni pictures have recently been identified (see S. Rudolph, Niccolò Maria Pallavicini. L'Acesa al Tempio della Virtù attraverso il Mecenatismo, Rome, 1995, pp. 86-97): two are in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (RF. 2114-5, see also S. Béguin, 'A propos des "Amours et guirlandes" de Maratta du Musée du Louvre', Paragone, no. 151, July 1962, pp. 68-74); one is in the Accademia Albert Gemäldegalerie, Vienna; and another is in a private collection, Mantua. The original Pallavicini pictures apparently remain untraced.
The present work is a studio replica of one of the Louvre pictures (RF. 2114, see S. Rudolph, op. cit., p. 88, fig. 56). Studio copies of other pictures in the series still hang today in the Palazzo Pallavicini Rospigliosi in the Salone da Ballo (see A.M. Pedrocchi, Il Palazzo Pallavicini Rospigliosi e la Galleria Pallavicini, Rome, 1999, pp. 192-5).
We are grateful to Dr. Stella Rudolph for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.
Such was the popularity of these highly decorative overdoors that Maratti's large studio produced a number of copies for clients eager to emulate the latest fashions in Roman interior design. The original works have now been dispersed; however, four of the six Montioni pictures have recently been identified (see S. Rudolph, Niccolò Maria Pallavicini. L'Acesa al Tempio della Virtù attraverso il Mecenatismo, Rome, 1995, pp. 86-97): two are in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (RF. 2114-5, see also S. Béguin, 'A propos des "Amours et guirlandes" de Maratta du Musée du Louvre', Paragone, no. 151, July 1962, pp. 68-74); one is in the Accademia Albert Gemäldegalerie, Vienna; and another is in a private collection, Mantua. The original Pallavicini pictures apparently remain untraced.
The present work is a studio replica of one of the Louvre pictures (RF. 2114, see S. Rudolph, op. cit., p. 88, fig. 56). Studio copies of other pictures in the series still hang today in the Palazzo Pallavicini Rospigliosi in the Salone da Ballo (see A.M. Pedrocchi, Il Palazzo Pallavicini Rospigliosi e la Galleria Pallavicini, Rome, 1999, pp. 192-5).
We are grateful to Dr. Stella Rudolph for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.