id:			307326
accession number:	2018.1
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.1
updated:		2023-03-22 03:05:16.341000

Portrait of Francesca Gommi Maratti, c. 1701. Carlo Maratti (Italian, 1625–1713). Oil on canvas; overall: 98.5 x 74.5 cm (38 3/4 x 29 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 2018.1

title:				Portrait of Francesca Gommi Maratti
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creation date:			c. 1701
creation date earliest:		1695
creation date latest:		1705
current location:		217 Italian Baroque
creditline:			Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	Italy
technique:	Oil on canvas
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	P - Italian 16th & 17th Century
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Carlo Maratti (Italian, 1625–1713)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 98.5 x 74.5 cm (38 3/4 x 29 5/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Recent Acquisitions
	opening date:   2018-03-17T04:00:00
	<i>Recent Acquisitions</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 17-June 7, 2018).

	title:		Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe
	opening date:   2021-04-05T04:00:00
	<i>Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe</i>. The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL (organizer) (April 5-June 12, 2021).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Mostra del Ritratto Italiano. </em>Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy (1911), room 26, no. 17 (as “una scultrice,” and “scuola italiano”)

* <em>Carlo Maratti 1625-1713. </em>Nicholas Hall, New York, NY (2017).<em><br></em>

* <em>Recent Acquisitions. </em>The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 17, 2018 - June 6, 2018).

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PROVENANCE

	[presumably] Carlo Maratti and Francesca Gommi Maratti, Casino d'Albano
	date: by 1705
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	[possibly] by descent to their daughter, Faustina Maratti Zappi (1679-1745)
	date: possibly until 1745
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	Pietro Ceci (d. 1919), Rome
	date: by 1911 - 1919
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	by descent to his widow, Maria Barbani Ceci, and daughters, Feliciana Schiff-Giorgini and Adriana Misciatelli
	date: 1919 -
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	(Carlo Orsi, Milan)
	date: - 2004
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	Luigi Koelliker, Milan
	date: 2004 -
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	(Robilant + Voena, London and Milan)
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	(NIcholas Hall, New York, by whom sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: 2017
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2018-
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fun fact:
The sitter holds a drawing representing Venus making Cupid's weapons, symbolizing the power of love to conquer all.

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wall description:
In 1700 Carlo Maratti’s wife died, permitting him to marry his longtime mistress, Francesca Gommi, who began modeling for the artist in the 1670s and was the mother of his only child, Faustina. This painting was presumably painted shortly after the marriage as an homage from the artist to his new wife. To introduce an allegorical element into the composition, Maratti included a painting within a painting—in this case a drawing depicting Venus forging the love-darts of her adolescent son Cupid, suggesting that love will conquer all.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Caversazzi, Ciro. <em>Il Ritratto italiano dal Caravaggio al Tiepolo</em>. Bergamo: Istituto Italiano d'Arti Grafiche, 1927.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 190-191 # 15
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	Bershad, David L. “The Newly Discovered Testament and Inventories of Carlo Maratti and his Wife Francesca (Gommi).” <em>Antologia di Belle Arti</em> 25-26 (1985) 65-84.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 70
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	Natoli, Marina and Francesco Petrucci. <em>Donne di Roma: dall'Impero Romano al 1860: Ritrattistica Romana al Femminile.</em> Roma: De Luca Editori d'Arte, 2003.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 24, #20
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	Petrucci, Francesco, ed. <em>Mola e Il Suo Tempo: Pittura Di Figura a Roma Dalla Collezione Koelliker</em>. Geneva-Milan: Skira, 2005.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 228-229, #60
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	Petrucci, Francesco. <em>Pittura di Ritratto a Roma: il Settecento</em>. Rome: Andreina &amp; Valneo Budai, 2010.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 342-343, p. 650, #420
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	Hall, Nicholas, Stella Rudolph and Ian Kennedy. <em>Paintings by Carlo Maratti</em>. New York: Nicholas Hall, 2017.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 32-35
	url:		http://www.nicholashjhall.com/publications/paintings-by-carlo-maratti

	Sotheby’s, New York. <em>Painting Passion: The Baroque in Italy</em>. September 24, 2018. Lot 14.
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	url:		http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2014/painting-passion-the-baroque-in-italy-n09108/lot.14.html?locale=en

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IMAGES

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