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| Portrait of a Young Man |
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| Painting in frame: overall |
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| Painting in frame: corner |
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| Painting in frame: angled corner |
Artist:Pompeo Batoni (Italian, Lucca 1708–1787 Rome)
Date:ca. 1760–65
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:97 1/8 x 69 1/4 in. (246.7 x 175.9 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1903
The Roman portraitist Batoni was especially prized by foreigners traveling on the Grand Tour. The sitter of this picture may be French, judging by his costume. He is shown with some of the artist's favorite props: a bas-relief of Antinous, a statue of Minerva, an armillary sphere, guidebooks to ancient and modern Rome, a volume of biographies of painters, and part II of Homer's Odyssey.
Provenance
José Guedes de Queiroz, Marquês da Foz, Palácio Foz, Lisbon (until 1901; his sale, Palácio Foz, Da Cunha/Dos Santos Liborio [auctioneers], May 3, 1901, no. 251, as a portrait of François Joseph, Emperor of Austria by François Hubert Drouais); [Dowdeswell & Dowdeswell, London, by 1903; sold to MMA]
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