Study of a Putto Seated on a Corbel in a Shell Niche, ca. 1674–76, Red chalk, Sheet: 7 x 5 1/16 in. (17.8 x 12.8 cm), Drawings, Carlo Maratti (Italian, Camerano 1625–1713 Rome), The Great Hall of the Palazzo Altieri in Rome, where Maratti worked from 1674 to 1677, is punctuated by four windows along one of the upper walls. Three of the spandrels (a triangular-shaped field) above those windows have frescoes of a putto seated on a feigned corbel in a shell niche very similar to the design of the present sheet, which is a recently identified study for that part of the decoration
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