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Portrait of Francesca Gommi, Wife of Carlo Maratti
Carlo Maratti (Italian, 1625–1713)
c. 1670–89
- Medium
- red chalk on paper
- Classification
- Drawing
- Dimensions
- Image: 38.7 x 25.7 cm (15 1/4 x 10 1/8 in.)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Drawings
- Credit line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This portrait drawing by Carlo Maratti conveys the immediacy of being drawn while the artist looked directly at the sitter’s features. The sitter, Francesca Gommi, was Maratti’s mistress (later wife), who he also depicted in a formal portrait, now in the CMA’s collection (see 2018.1). This drawing, instead, depicts an intimate moment. Adding to the casual nature of the portrait, Gommi wears a whimsical rimless hat, which may be a sleeping cap.
