CARLO MARATTA
23 Faith and Justice Enthroned
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, white gouache height-
ening, and red chalk on brown paper, cut in an irregular
shape; H: 48.4 cm (19 in.); W: 28.7011 (ii^1 /^ in.)
85.00.960
MARKS AND INSCRIPTIONS: (Recto) at bottom left cor-
ner, collection mark of William, second duke of Dev-
onshire (L. 718); on mount, at bottom center, inscribed
Carlo Maratti in brown ink by Jonathan Richardson, Sr.;
(verso) on mount, inscribed QQi, Carlo Maratti in
brown ink by Jonathan Richardson, Sr.
PROVENANCE: Jonathan Richardson, Sr., London; Wil-
liam, second duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth; by de-
scent to the current duke (sale, Christie's, London, July
3 , 1984, lot 27); art market, London.
EXHIBITIONS: Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth,
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and other
institutions, 1969-1970, no. 42 (catalogue by J. Byam
Shaw).
BIBLIOGRAPHY: J. Byam Shaw, "Drawings from Chats-
worth," Apollo 119, no. 268 (June 1984), p. 458.THIS LARGE DRAWING IS OF SPECIAL INTEREST ON
account of its function, which was first discovered byj.
Montagu and N. Turner when it was exhibited prior to
the Christie's auction in 1984. It was made as a prepara-
tory study, in reverse, for the upper left corner of a large
map of Rome designed by Giovanni Battista Falda and
published by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi in 1676.* The
map was published with a dedicatory scroll (to the newly
elected pope, Innocent XI), borne by putti, below the
paired figures of Justice and Faith. The rich use of white
heightening enlivens the rather restrained monumental-
ity of the figures. D. DeGrazia has noted the influence of
Annibale Carracci in the sculptural use of white height-
ening and in the figural morphology.^21. A. Frutaz, Le piante di Roma (Rome, 1962), vol. i, pp.
221-222.
2. Conversation with the author, 1986.66 ITALIAN SCHOOL • MARATTA