Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Lucca 1708-1787 Rome)

A dog, looking to the left

Details

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Lucca 1708-1787 Rome)
A dog, looking to the left
red and white chalk
5 ¾ x 6 ½ in. (13.3 x 17.4 cm)

Provenance

Santo Varni, Genoa (1807-1885), his inscription 'No. 43 Collezione Santo Varni' (L. 3531).

Lot Essay

A similar young pointer appears in Batoni's portrait of Frederick St. John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke of c. 1753 (E. Peters Bowron, Pompeo Batoni. A complete catalogue of his paintings, I, New Haven and London, 2016, no. 175, ill.)

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