Name: GIUSEPPE BARTOLOMEO CHIARI (LUCCA OR ROME 1654-1727 ROME)
Brand: Tullia driving her chariot over the body of her father, Servius Tullus
Price: 3000.00 GBP
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GIUSEPPE BARTOLOMEO CHIARI (LUCCA OR ROME 1654-1727 ROME)
Tullia driving her chariot over the body of her father, Servius Tullus
with inscriptions 'Pietro da Cortona/ B [?] 1596. D. 1669' and 'original by/ Cortona No. 98' and with number '98' (verso)
black and red chalk, squared for transfer with black chalk, watermark encircled anchor with 'M' and 'L', surmounted by a star (see Heawood 5 and 6)
10³⁄₈ x 14 in. (26.2 x 35.5 cm)

Herbert List (1903-1975), Munich (L. 4063).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 11 January 1994, lot 220.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 3 July 1996, lot 43.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Paris, 15 December 2004, lot 34.

P. Dreyer, 'Notizen zum malerischen und zeichnerischen Œuvre der Maratta-Schule. Giuseppe Chiari - Pietro de'Pietri - Agostino Masucci', Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte,XXXIV, 1971, p. 187, 196ff.
H. Brigstocke and J. Somerville, Italian Paintings from Burghley House, exhib. cat., Pittsburgh, Frick Art Museum, 1995, p. 56, under no. 8, p. 58, fig. 2.

Munich, Staatliche Grapische Sammlung and elsewhere, Stiftung Ratjen. Italienische Zeichnungen des 16.-18. Jahrhunderts, exhib. cat., 1977-1978, no. 91. ill. (catalogue entry by P. Deyer).

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A study for the picture at Burghley House which Chiari painted in 1686/1687 for Jacopo Montinioni, the treasurer to Pope Innocent XII (see Brigstocke and Somerville, op. cit., no. 8). It was later bought by the 5th Earl of Exeter on his Grand Tour and it appears in an inventory at Burghley House from 1738. Lord Exeter was an important patron to a number of artists and his account books give a rare insight into collecting from this period (see E. Waterhouse, 'A note on British Collecting of Italian Pictures in the Later Seventeenth Century', The Burlington Magazine, 1960, CII, pp. 54-58). Another drawing for this composition, presumably earlier than the present one as it is less close to the picture, is in the Art Institute of Chicago (see B. Kerber, 'Giuseppe Chiari, The Art Bulletin, 1968, L, figs. 2 and 3).