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 title in original language: series: series in original language: 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: --- culture: Italy technique: Oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Italian 16th & 17th Century type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Carlo Maratti (Italian, 1625–1713) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 98.5 x 74.5 cm (38 3/4 x 29 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Recent Acquisitions opening date: 2018-03-17T04:00:00 Recent Acquisitions. 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 Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe. The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL (organizer) (April 5-June 12, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Mostra del Ritratto Italiano. Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy (1911), room 26, no. 17 (as “una scultrice,” and “scuola italiano”) * Carlo Maratti 1625-1713. Nicholas Hall, New York, NY (2017).
* Recent Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 17, 2018 - June 6, 2018). --- PROVENANCE [presumably] Carlo Maratti and Francesca Gommi Maratti, Casino d'Albano date: by 1705 footnotes: citations: [possibly] by descent to their daughter, Faustina Maratti Zappi (1679-1745) date: possibly until 1745 footnotes: citations: Pietro Ceci (d. 1919), Rome date: by 1911 - 1919 footnotes: citations: by descent to his widow, Maria Barbani Ceci, and daughters, Feliciana Schiff-Giorgini and Adriana Misciatelli date: 1919 - footnotes: citations: (Carlo Orsi, Milan) date: - 2004 footnotes: citations: Luigi Koelliker, Milan date: 2004 - footnotes: citations: (Robilant + Voena, London and Milan) date: footnotes: citations: (NIcholas Hall, New York, by whom sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 2017 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2018- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The sitter holds a drawing representing Venus making Cupid's weapons, symbolizing the power of love to conquer all. digital description: 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Caversazzi, Ciro. Il Ritratto italiano dal Caravaggio al Tiepolo. Bergamo: Istituto Italiano d'Arti Grafiche, 1927. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 190-191 # 15 url: Bershad, David L. “The Newly Discovered Testament and Inventories of Carlo Maratti and his Wife Francesca (Gommi).” Antologia di Belle Arti 25-26 (1985) 65-84. page number: Mentioned: p. 70 url: Natoli, Marina and Francesco Petrucci. Donne di Roma: dall'Impero Romano al 1860: Ritrattistica Romana al Femminile. Roma: De Luca Editori d'Arte, 2003. page number: Reproduced: p. 24, #20 url: Petrucci, Francesco, ed. Mola e Il Suo Tempo: Pittura Di Figura a Roma Dalla Collezione Koelliker. Geneva-Milan: Skira, 2005. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 228-229, #60 url: Petrucci, Francesco. Pittura di Ritratto a Roma: il Settecento. Rome: Andreina & Valneo Budai, 2010. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 342-343, p. 650, #420 url: Hall, Nicholas, Stella Rudolph and Ian Kennedy. Paintings by Carlo Maratti. 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. Painting Passion: The Baroque in Italy. September 24, 2018. Lot 14. page number: url: http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2014/painting-passion-the-baroque-in-italy-n09108/lot.14.html?locale=en --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.1/2018.1_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.1/2018.1_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.1/2018.1_full.tif