Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Pair of angels with floral garland and cartouche with family motto 'Pulchriora latent'
Workshop of Carlo Maratta (Camerano, 1625 - Rome, 1713)
Dated on parchment, right: 1697
oil on the table (94 x 84cm./ in frame 105 x 95 cm.)
This magnificent composition, depicting two little fluttering cupids intent on holding up a garland of flowers, can be traced back, both for the stylistic characteristics and for the compositional taste, to a master active in the fervid seventeenth-century Baroque Rome.
One of the two cupids is about to grab the bow of the garland with his head facing downwards, while with the other hand he shows a parchment which bears, in addition to the date of execution, the Latin expression "Pulchriora latent" ("The the most beautiful things...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Paintings