Saint Rosalia Interceding for Victims of the Plague in Palestrina

Carlo Maratti Italian

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This attractive drawing is a finished composition study, with some differences, for a painting of Saint Rosalia interceding on behalf of the plague victims of Palestrina. Maratti received the commission for this votive image from Prince Maffeo Barberini in 1656 following an outbreak of plague. The work originally hung in the chapel adjacent to the Barberini palace in Palestrina, a small city near Rome, and is now in the Corsini Collection in Florence. A second drawing of a similar subject showing Saint Rosalia interceding with Christ is in the Museum's collection (inv. 61.212.2) ; it is not connected with the Palestrina painting, however, but probably to an unrecorded votive altarpiece.

Saint Rosalia Interceding for Victims of the Plague in Palestrina, Carlo Maratti (Italian, Camerano 1625–1713 Rome), Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, over black chalk, on beige paper

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