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Pompeo Batoni . Lucca 1708 - 1787 Rome
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Description
- Pompeo Batoni
- study for a painting of st bartholomew, and a further study of his drapery
- bears signature: Pompeo Batoni
- red chalk heightened with white chalk, on beige paper (?lightly washed); the main study squared for transfer
Provenance
E. Galippe
Exhibited
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Italiaanse Tekeningen, 1970, cat. no. 134, reproduced p. 100, fig. 99
Literature
Francis Russell, 'Batoni at Basildon', National Trust Studies, 1981, p. 37;
Anthony M. Clark, edited by Edgar Peters Bowron, Pompeo Batoni, Oxford 1985, p. 378, cat. no. D2
Anthony M. Clark, edited by Edgar Peters Bowron, Pompeo Batoni, Oxford 1985, p. 378, cat. no. D2
Catalogue Note
This is a preparatory study for Batoni's painting which was one of a series of the Apostles commissioned by Count Cesare Merenda for his gallery at Forlì, painted in the early 1740s (fig. 1). The painting was in the collection of Anthony Clark and was sold, London, Christie's, 6 July 1978, lot 8 (see Clark, op. cit., p. 231, cat. no. 77). Another study related to the painting is in the Royal Library, Windsor (see Clark, op. cit.., p. 388, cat. no. D288, reproduced plate 77).