The Madonna and Child with Two Adoring Putti-angels
possibly Carlo Maratta (Camerano 1625 – Rome 1713)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1670 - 1699
Materials
Oil on canvas (laid on panel)
Measurements
483 x 381 mm (19 x 15 in)
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 732152
Summary
Oil painting on canvas laid down on panel, Madonna and Child with Two Adoring Putti-angels, possibly by Carlo Maratta (Camerano 1625 – Rome 1713), in the manner of Reni, late 17th century. The Madonna holds the Christ Child asleep in her arms, looking downwards, facing towards the left against a dark background. She has a yellow headress, dark cloak and a red undergarment. Two putti, on the left, look up towards the Madonna.
Provenance
Possibly owned by Carlo Maratta (1625 - 1713) and possibly given to the violinist, composer and collector Arcangelo Corelli (1653 - 1713); acquired by Henry Hoare II (1705-85) and thence by descent; given to the National Trust along with the house, its grounds, and the rest of contents by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Bt (1865 – 1947) in 1946.
Credit line
Stourhead, The Hoare Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: in ink on an old label on the back: "This P was in The Collection of Carlo / Marat: he gave it to Corelli, whose Widow / sold it. It appears by Carlo’s Madonna’s that he study’d it. / The learned conjecture that This Holy Family / is a Study from a painting by Hannibal / Carrach:…"
Makers and roles
possibly Carlo Maratta (Camerano 1625 – Rome 1713), artist manner of Guido Reni (Bologna 1575 – Bologna 1642) previously catalogued as attributed to Annibale Carracci (Bologna 1560 - Rome 1609)
References
Hoare 1822 Sir Richard Colt Hoare, History of Modern Wiltshire (Hundred of Mere),1822 , p. 80 Wolfe Karin Wolfe, Il pittore e il musicista. Il artistico tra Francesco Trevisani e Arcangelo Corelli. Frank de Ferderico, FRancesco Trevisani, Washington 1977, p.47, cat. no. 62