Pompeo Batoni
Allegory of Painting
Auction Closed
May 21, 02:59 PM GMT
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
Lot Details
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Pompeo Batoni
Lucca 1708 - 1787 Rome
Allegory of Painting
signed and dated lower left on hem of cloak: P. BATONI PINXIT ROMÆ AN. 1772.
inscribed lower right with an unidentified inventory mark
canvas: 29 ⅝ by 23 ⅝ in.; 75.2 by 60.0 cm
framed: 37 by 31 ¾ in.; 94.0 by 80.6 cm
Private collection, France;
From whom acquired via private sale, Sotheby's, New York, by Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III, 1998.
E.P. Bowron, "Pompeo Batoni's 'Allegory of Peace and War' and Other Subject Pictures," in Studi di Storia dell'Arte in onore di Denis Mahon, M.G. Bernardini, S.D. Squarzina, and C. Strinati (eds.), Milan 2000, pp. 358-360, reproduced fig. 3;
E.P. Bowron, Pompeo Batoni: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, New Haven and London 2016, vol. II, pp. 455-456, cat. no. 361, reproduced;
R. Evren, in With Observation and Imagination: Still Lifes, Genre Scenes, Portraits, and Landscapes from the Saunders Collection, exhibition catalogue, A.K. Wheelock Jr. (ed.), New York 2021, pp. 115-117, 175, cat. no. 27, reproduced.
Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Elegance and Wonder: Masterpieces of European Art from the Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III Collection, 20 March 2023 - 30 January 2025, no. 27.