Madonna and Child with Angels (oil on canvas)

A variant copy of Maratta's 'Nativity' is in the Dresden Gallery, with the Virgin's face turned sideways rather than downwards. Maratti's painting is itself an adaptation of Correggio's 'La Notte', now in Dresden but was in the Pratonero Chapel of S. Prospero, Reggio Emilia, between 1522 and 1530. It was removed by Duke Francesco I d'Este to his collection in Modena in 1640, when Marratta's adaptation would probably have been painted, or at least for the same collection, and was amongst the pictures sold by Duke Francesco II d'Este to Augustus II of Saxony-Poland in 1745/46. This copy therefore probably antedates that removal.