Study for Saint Bartholomew and Drapery
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni · c. 1740
Provenance
Ownership history
- Possibly Count Cesare Merenda, Forlì. E. Galippe, Amsterdam [according to Amsterdam 1970 exh. cat.]; probably by descent to Mme. Veuve Galippe; probably her sale, Amsterdam, R.W.P. de Vries, March 27/29, 1923. Iohan Q. Van Regteren Altena (1899—1980), Amsterdam, by 1980 [according to Russell]; by descent to his family until at least 1985 [according to Clark & Bowron]. Sold, Sotheby’s, London, July 5, 2006, lot 39, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, "Italiaanse Tekeningen," 1970, cat. 134, p. 100, fig. 99.
- Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," Mar. 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.
Literature
Published references
- Francis Russell, “Batoni at Basildon,” National Trust Studies 1981 (London, 1980), p. 37.
- Anthony M. Clark, and Edgar Peters Bowron (ed.), Pompeo Batoni (Oxford, 1985), p. 378, no. D2.
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