Object numberKA (FP) 14080

Studien für eine Hirtin, die einen Korb trägt

Titel EnglischStudies from Life for the Arms of the Shepherdess bearing a Basket

NameZeichnung

Künstler*in Carlo Maratti (IT, 1625 - 1713)

Dateca. 1650

MediumRötel, mit weißer Kreide gehöht, auf blauem Papier

DimensionsBlattmaß: 28,3 × 42,7 cm

DescriptionCharacterised by an assured and incisive handling of red chalk, this sheet is undoubtedly one of the young Maratti´s finest achievements. He repeatedly studied the arms of the shepherdess at the left of the painting, bearing the weight of a basket on her head, Below there are sketches of the basket ans her slightly inclined head; though faintly indicated, the facial features match those in the painting perfectly. These detailed life studies attest to the artist´s determination to pin down the exact disposition of her arms, as well as the convoluted drapery gathered beneath her right elbow, and at the far right what appear to be the folds of the kneeling shepherd´s cloak. Maratti would use this study again for the woman in his Visitation of 1666 for Santa Maria della Pace, also bearing a basket on her head with her arms identically posed. He did not, however, replicate the head.
Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinò, Drawings by Carlo Maratti in the collection of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf at the Kunstpalast, Petersberg 2024, Kat. 38, S. 63

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Grafik - Zeichnung

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Bibliography TextSimonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinò, Drawings by Carlo Maratti in the collection of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf at the Kunstpalast, Petersberg 2024, Kat. 38, S. 63
Eckhard Schaar, in: Eckhard Schaar und Ann Sutherland Harris, Die Handzeichnungen von Andrea Sacchi und Carlo Maratta, Düsseldorf 1967, Kat. 177; Ann Sutherland Harris, Andrea Sacchi and Carlo Maratti, 1630 to 1660, in: Maratti e l'Europa, Kongressakten hrsg. von Liliana Barroero und Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinò, Rom 2015, S. 13-24 (S. 17, Abb. 3 (mit falscher Inv.-Nr.).

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