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Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari was Carlo Maratta’s pupil and later his assistant in Rome. His work includes religious pictures, mythological subjects and extensive fresco decorations. He painted in the Colonna and Barberini palaces; his Aurora of 1690 and the ceiling of San Clemente, executed in 1715, mark important stages in this career serving Roman patrons.
In Bathsheba at Her Bath, painted around 1700 and preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Chiari adapts a composition by his teacher with a lighter, more delicate manner. The museum connects this development with the taste that would inform French rococo painting. The Met also holds a red chalk Adoration of the Magi. Susannah and the Elders, in Baltimore’s Walters Art Museum, provides another example of his treatment of biblical narratives.
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Oil on copper
Die heilige Familie mit schlafendem Christus und Johannes
Öl auf Kupfer
Auction date : 2023-05-20
Published result : 3780 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 4000
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