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Study of a Figure in Priest's Robes

Carlo Maratti
1625-1713

Study of a Figure in Priest's Robes

15 11/16 x 9 9/16 inches (398 x 242 mm)
Red chalk, with white chalk, on blue paper lined to decorative mount.
1972.13

Bequest of Joseph Halle Schaffner in tribute to Felice Stampfle and Frederick B. Adams.

Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Preparatory drawing for the altarpiece "Madonna and Child with SS. Carlo Borromeo and Ignatius Loyola", Santa Maria in Vallicella, Rome, painted for Orazio Spada ca. 1685.
Associated names
Holstein-Rathlow, Sophy von, Countess, former owner.
Schaffner, Joseph Halle, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 173.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department