Live Auction 2535Old Master & Early British Drawings & Watercolors
Carlo Maratti (Camerano 1625-1713 Rome)
Lot 80 PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

Carlo Maratti (Camerano 1625-1713 Rome)

Jael

Closed26 January 2012

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Carlo Maratti (Camerano 1625-1713 Rome)
Jael
with inscription 'Carlo Maratti'
pen and brown ink, grey wash
8 5/8 x 6 1/8 in. (21.8 x 15.6 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 4 July 2000, lot 123, where acquired by the present owner.

Specialist note

A study for the figure of Jael in Jael and Sisera in the Accademia de San Luca, Rome. Two other studies, both including motifs from the finished painting are in the Acxademia de San Fernando, Madrid (La Real Academia di San Fernando, exhib. cat., Madrid, 1965, no. 40).
Another figure in this same pose appears in a mosaic lunette completed by Maratti in 1680s for the Cappella della Presentazione in the Vatican.