Allegorical Figure of Peace

Inscription: Inscribed in pen and brown ink at upper left by the artist within the tablet: "PAX." Annotated by an early collector in pen and brown ink at lower right: "N. 15." Annotated in graphite by modern hands on reverse of old mount: "Design for a Spandril / 'Peace' (Pax) / Original drawing by Domenichino."

Sir Karl T. Parker; P. & D. Colnaghi & Co.

Morgan Library & Museum, New York. "Drawings from New York Collections, II. The Seventeenth Century in Italy," February 23, 1967–April 22, 1967.

Pennsylvania State University, Museum of Art. "Carlo Maratti and His Contemporaries: Figurative Drawings from the Roman Baroque," January 19, 1975–March 16, 1975.

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New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," January 12–April 12, 2009.

Jacob Bean, Felice Stampfle Drawings from New York Collections, Vol. II: The Seventeenth Century in Italy. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 1967, cat. no. 114, ill.

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Walter Vitzthum "Review: Drawings from New York Collections, Vol. 2: The Seventeenth Century in Italy (Exh. cat., New York, MMA and PML, by Jacob Bean and Felice Stampfle, 1967)." Burlington Magazine. vol. 109, London, April 1967, p. 253.

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Jennifer Montagu "Bellori, Maratti, and the Palazzo Altieri." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. vol. 41, London, 1978, p. 340.

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Ebria Feinblatt "A Drawing by Carlo Maratta." Los Angeles County Museum of Art Bulletin. vol. 25, 1979, p. 16, fig. 22, ill.

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Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinò "Maratti e il 'primato del disegno': il caso di Palazzo Altieri." Maratti e l'Europa. Ed. by Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinò, and Sebastian Schütze, Rome, 2015, pp. 98, fig. 8, p. 123 and pl. 8.