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Carlo Maratti (1625-1713)
Marcus Aurelius sacrificing before the Temple of Jupiter: the figures
Black chalk, heightened with white, on grey-brown paper | 21.2 x 27.1 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 904374
Carlo Maratti (1625-1713)
Marcus Aurelius sacrificing before the Temple of Jupiter: the figures
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A drawing copied after the group of figures in the relief depicting Marcus Aurelius sacrificing before The Temple of Jupiter, in the Palazzo dei Conservatori. Standing around a sacred tripod, the group includes priests and a man with an axe holding a sacrificial bull. The Royal Collection has eighteen drawings by Maratti and his studio, after antique sculpture (B(R) 373-392). Some of these are engraved in Jan de Bisschop's Signorum Veterum Icones, c.1672-89. See also RCIN 904373.
Provenance
Probably acquired by George III in 1762 as part of the collection of Cardinal Alessandro Albani; first recorded in a Royal Collection inventory of c.1810 (Inv. A, p. 109: 'Study's from Antique Basso Relievo's')
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Medium and techniques
Black chalk, heightened with white, on grey-brown paper
Measurements
21.2 x 27.1 cm (sheet of paper)
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