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Pompeo Batoni (Lucca 1708-1787 Rome)
Lot 39

Pompeo Batoni (Lucca 1708-1787 Rome)

A male nude wearing a crown gesturing to the left

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GBP 2,160

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Pompeo Batoni (Lucca 1708-1787 Rome)
A male nude wearing a crown gesturing to the left
with inscription 'Pompeo Batoni' and number 'N.2606'
red chalk, squared in red chalk, on brown paper
11 x 8 1/8 in. (280 x 209 mm.)

Specialist note

Drawn in preparation for the figure of Seleucus in Batoni's painting of Antiochus and Stratonice now in the Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico (A.M. Clark, ed. E. Peters Bowron, Pompeo Batoni, Oxford, 1985, no. 102).
Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico