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Study for Saint Bartholomew and Drapery
Inscriptions
Inscribed, recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "Pompeo Batoni"
Provenance
Possibly Count Cesare Merenda, Forlì. E. Galippe, Amsterdam [according to Amsterdam 1970 exh. cat.]; probably by descent to Mme. Veuve Galippe; probably her sale, Amsterdam, R.W.P. de Vries, March 27/29, 1923. Iohan Q. Van Regteren Altena (1899—1980), Amsterdam, by 1980 [according to Russell]; by descent to his family until at least 1985 [according to Clark & Bowron]. Sold, Sotheby’s, London, July 5, 2006, lot 39, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Exhibition history
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, "Italiaanse Tekeningen," 1970, cat. 134, p. 100, fig. 99. Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," Mar. 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.
Publications
Francis Russell, “Batoni at Basildon,” National Trust Studies 1981 (London, 1980), p. 37. Anthony M. Clark, and Edgar Peters Bowron (ed.), Pompeo Batoni (Oxford, 1985), p. 378, no. D2.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Pompeo Girolamo Batoni / Italian, 1708-1787
- Date
- c. 1740
- Medium
- Red chalk, heightened with white chalk, on beige laid paper, squared for transfer with red chalk, edge mounted to blue wove card
- Dimensions
- 28.4 × 18.1 cm (11 3/16 × 7 3/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- prints and drawing
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.894
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