Portrait of Cardinal Annibale Albani (1682-1751), half-length

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Circle of Francesco Trevisani (Capodistria 1656-1746 Rome)
Portrait of Cardinal Annibale Albani (1682-1751), half-length
oil on canvas
29 5/8 x 24¼ in. (75.3 x 61.6 cm.)

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Please note that an attribution to Francesco Trevisani has been suggested by Dr. Francesco Petrucci. Dr. Petrucci intends to include the work in his forthcoming publication: Pittura di Ritratto a Roma. Il Settecento. Vol 3, in 2009.

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The sitter was a cousin of Pope Clement XI and became Cardinal Bishop of Sabina in 1711. He was a great patron of ecclesiastical literature, and left a valuable collection to the Vatican upon his death. Cardinal Albani also edited a number of volumes, including the letters of Clement XI (1724), the Menologium Grecorum (1727), and historical memoirs of Urbino (1722-24), the city of his birth.

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