id: 357545 accession number: 2019.74 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.74 updated: Portrait of Francesca Gommi, Wife of Carlo Maratti, c. 1670s-80s. Carlo Maratti (Italian, 1625–1713). Red chalk on paper; image: 38.7 x 25.7 cm (15 1/4 x 10 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 2019.74 title: Portrait of Francesca Gommi, Wife of Carlo Maratti title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1670s-80s creation date earliest: 1670 creation date latest: 1689 current location: creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund copyright: --- culture: technique: red chalk on paper department: Drawings collection: DR - Italian type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Carlo Maratti (Italian, 1625–1713) - artist --- measurements: Image: 38.7 x 25.7 cm (15 1/4 x 10 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: inscribed with paraph of Ignacio Augustin de Hermosilla Sandoval y Rojas translation: remark: inscription: laid down on album sheet inscribed “60 R” translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Collection of Andrea Procacini, inherited by his wife, Rosalía O'More after the death of the artist date: after 1713-1775 footnotes: citations: sold in 1775 by Andrea Procacini and Rosalía O'More at the Academie des Beaux-Arts de San Fernando date: 1775 footnotes: citations: Collection of Valentín de Carderera date: c. 1850 to 1880 footnotes: citations: Eduardo Carderera, Madrid, Spain date: 1880-1922 footnotes: citations: María del Pilar Carderera, Madrid, Spain date: 1922-1929 footnotes: citations: Carlos Carderera, Madrid, Spain date: 1929 footnotes: citations: Galería José De La Mano, Madrid, Spain date: footnotes: citations: the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: June 3, 2019 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The sitter of this portrait was the mistress of the artist and later his wife. digital description: This portrait drawing by Carlo Maratti conveys the immediacy of being drawn while the artist looked directly at the sitter’s features. The sitter, Francesca Gommi, was Maratti’s mistress (later wife), who he also depicted in a formal portrait, now in the CMA’s collection (see 2018.1). This drawing, instead, depicts an intimate moment. Adding to the casual nature of the portrait, Gommi wears a whimsical rimless hat, which may be a sleeping cap. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Brown, Heather Lemonedes. “Acquisitions 2019.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 60, no. 2 (March/April 2020): 6-7. page number: Reproduced: P. 6; Mentioned: P. 7. url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2019.74/2019.74_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2019.74/2019.74_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2019.74/2019.74_full.tif