Four Studies of Recumbent Female Nudes (Galatea), ca. 1713, Red chalk, touches of white chalk, on blue paper, Sheet: 15 3/16 × 21 7/16 in. (38.6 × 54.4 cm), Drawings, Carlo Maratti (Italian, Camerano 1625–1713 Rome), Characterized by a striking chromatic contrast between the red chalk and the blue paper, this study was for Maratti’s late painting 'Galatea and Acis,' a mythological subject taken from Ovid’s 'Metamorphoses'
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Four Studies, Recumbent Female Nudes, Galatea, ca, 1713, Red chalk, touches, white, blue paper, Sheet, 15 3/16, 21 7/16, 38.6, 54.4 cm, Drawings, Carlo Maratti, Italian, Camerano, 1625–1713, Rome, Characterized, striking chromatic contrast, red, study, Maratti, late, painting, Acis, mythological subject, Ovid, Metamorphoses'
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