Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (1708-1787)

Details

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (1708-1787)

Studies for the Figure of Aeneas

with inscription '4 of 9' on the mount; red chalk, on blue paper, minor losses made up
8 3/8 x 10 7/8in. (213 x 278mm.)

Provenance

Veuve Galippe.
Hausmann.
Countess Finkenstein.

Literature

E. Emmerling, Pompeo Batoni, sein Leben und Werk, Cologne, 1932, pp. 141 and 212.
A.M. Clark, Some Early Subject Pictures by P.G. Batoni, The Burlington Magazine, CI, 1959, pp. 232-6, no. 115.
A.M. Clark, Pompeo Batoni, complete catalogue, Oxford, 1985, no. D207.

Exhibited

Vassar College, 1963, no. 38.
Duke University, 1966, no. 28.

Lot Essay

For Aeneas abandoning Dido dated 1747, in the collection of Sir Brinsley Ford, Clark, op. cit., no. 155, pl. 109. The drawing comes from an album of 102 leaves datable to Batoni's early and middle period. The album was broken up some time after 1932.