Portrait of Francesca Gommi Maratti

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Portrait of Francesca Gommi Maratti

Carlo MarattiLinkedCulture matchlcp-11f56b8243e8

Date
c. 1701
Medium
Oil on canvas
Culture
Italy
Department
European Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
307326

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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. The sitter holds a drawing representing Venus making Cupid's weapons, symbolizing the power of love to conquer all.

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Credit line
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
Provenance
By 1705: [presumably] Carlo Maratti and Francesca Gommi Maratti, Casino d'Albano | Possibly until 1745: [possibly] by descent to their daughter, Faustina Maratti Zappi (1679-1745) | By 1911 - 1919: Pietro Ceci (d. 1919), Rome | 1919 - 2004: by descent to his widow, Maria Barbani Ceci, and daughters, Feliciana Schiff-Giorgini and Adriana Misciatelli | 2004: (Carlo Orsi, Milan) | 2004 - 2014: Luigi Koelliker, Milan | 2014 - 2017: (Robilant + Voena, London and Milan) | 2017: (Nicholas Hall, New York, by whom sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 2018 - Present: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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