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The Holy Family

Artist Carlo Maratti (Italian, 1625-1713)

Place of OriginRome, Italy

Dateabout 1700-1705

DimensionsH: 28 in. (71.1 cm); W: 21 1/16 in. (53.5 cm)

MediumOil on canvas

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1967.141

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Label TextThe Christ Child points out a passage of scripture—perhaps one alluding to his eventual crucifixion—as he gazes up at his young mother. The reference to Christ’s death is further underlined by the sarcophagus on which Mary is seated and its carved relief representing Charity. The drapery over the sarcophagus suggests a shroud. By 1670, Carlo Maratti was considered the leading painter in Rome and was patronized by successive Popes.Published ReferencesWaagen, G. F., Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain, London, 1857, IV, p. 366.

Goodison, J. W., and G. H. Robertson, Catalogue of Paintings in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, II, Italian Schools, Cambridge, 1967, pp. 96-7.

Nicholson, Benedict, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions - General," Burlington Magazine, May 1967, p. 321, "A Perfect Maratti Madonna."

Faison, S. Lane, Jr., "From Lorenzo Monaco to Mattia Preti," Apollo, vol. 86, no. 70, Dec. 1967, p. 449, repr. fig. 6, p. 450.

"La Chronique Des Arts," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. 71, no. 1189, Feb. 1968, p. 62, no. 240, repr.

"Treasures for Toledo," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 12, no. 4, Winter 1969, p. 104, repr.

Fredericksen, B., and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Collections, Cambidge (Mass.), 1972, pp. 119, 351.

Waterhouse, E., "Painting in Rome in 186_," Museum Studies 6, Chicago Art Institute, 1971, p. 8.

The Toledo Museum of Art, European Paintings, Toledo, 1976, p. 102, pl. 23.

Hall, Nicholas H. J., ed. Colnaghi in America, New York, 1992, p. 133.

John, Christopher M. S., "An Ornament of Italy and the Premier Female Painter of Europe Rosalba Carriera and the Roman Academy," in Women, Art and the Politics of Identity in Eighteenth-Century Europe, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2003, pp. 31-2, fig. 2. 4.

Exhibition HistoryLondon, British Institution, The Works of the Late Sir David Wilkie, R. A. Together with a Selection of Pictures by Ancient Masters, 1842, no. 170.

London, Colnaghi, Paintings by Old Masters, 1967, no. 12, pl. X.

Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO. 1971.

Comparative ReferencesSee also Sothebys, Old Masters Day Sale, London, July 2016, lot 187.