Studio of Carlo Maratti (Camerano 1625-1713 Rome)
Portrait of the artist
traces of black chalk, red chalk, stumping
17 1/8 x 11¼ in. (43.5 x 28.5 cm.); and a drawing of The Death of Saint Francis Xavier, after Carlo Maratti (2)
Provenance
H.S. Reitlinger.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Rome, 7 November 1989, lot 487, as Attributed to Carlo Maratti.
Literature
N. Turner, Italian Drawings in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum: Roman Baroque Drawings c. 1620-1700, London, 1999, p. 131, under no. 83.
Lot Essay
Related to a Self Portrait (circa 1680-90) in the Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt (inv. AE 2164), of which numerous versions and copies are known.
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