Madonna and Child with Angels
after Carlo Maratta (Camerano 1625 – Rome 1713)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1640 - 1746 (original picture sold)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
394 x 305 mm (15 1/2 x 12 in)
Place of origin
Rome
Order this imageCollection
Erddig, Wrexham
NT 1151385
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Madonna and Child with Angels, after Carlo Maratta (Camerano 1625 – Rome 1713). A variant copy of Maratta's 'Nativity' is in the Dresden Gallery, with the Virgin's face turned sideways rather than downwards. Maratti's painting is itself an adaptation of Correggio's 'La Notte', now in Dresden but was in the Pratonero Chapel of S. Prospero, Reggio Emilia, between 1522 and 1530. It was removed by Duke Francesco I d'Este to his collection in Modena in 1640, when Marratta's adaptation would probably have been painted, or at least for the same collection, and was amongst the pictures sold by Duke Francesco II d'Este to Augustus II of Saxony-Poland in 1745/46. This copy therefore probably antedates that removal.
Provenance
In the inventory of the house of the late James Hutton, uncle of Philip Yorke I (1743 – 1804) whose father was the collector Matthew Hutton (d. 1728); in Park Lane, 27-28 July 1770 as: The Virgin Mary & our Saviour; in undated early 19th century Erddig inventory (circa 1820 at time of house picture cleaning) as 'The Virgin Mary & our Saviour Anty: de Correggio'; given by Philip Yorke III (1905-1978) along with the estate, house and contents to the National Trust in 1973.
Marks and inscriptions
Label on back: 'Correggio'
Makers and roles
after Carlo Maratta (Camerano 1625 – Rome 1713), artist
References
Loveday, 1732: Diary of a Tour in 1732 through parts of England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland by John Loveday. Edinburgh, 1890, p. , : 'In a fine glass .... over a Chimney is inserted an excellent painting of the Virgin & Babe'? [It cannot have been, if it was indeed the picture listed in James Hutton's house in Park Lane in 1770] If it ever really was inserted into a looking-glass, as Loveday seems to say, that painting may have been even smaller than this is: was it perhaps the precious little Rottenhammer-ish/Procaccini-ish Madonna and Child in a landscape (No. 63; inv. P/111) now in the Chapel? [but this may actually feature as an addendum to the early 19th century Erddig inventory, as: "a Riposa (small size) Landscape by Paul Brill Figures?"] Hutton 1770 Inventory of the late James Hutton's house in Park Lane, 27-28 July 1770 , "The Virgin Mary & our Saviour" Erddig 1800-29 Inventory of contents of Erddig, 1800-1829, "The Virgin Mary & our Saviour Anty: de Corregio"