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Pompeo Batoni

Allegory of Painting

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May 21, 02:59 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

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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.