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Study for Saint Bartholomew and Drapery
Pompeo Girolamo BatoniLinkedCulture matchlcp-77b0c9afa4ad
- Date
- c. 1740
- Medium
- Red chalk, heightened with white chalk, on beige laid paper, squared for transfer with red chalk, edge mounted to blue wove card
- Culture
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 187679
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
Pompeo Batoni was one of the foremost religious painters working in Rome in the 18th century. This sheet of studies was preparatory for his painting Saint Bartholomew (1740/45; private collection, Rome). It was part of a series of canvases representing Christ’s apostles commissioned by Count Cesare Merenda, Batoni’s most dedicated patron, for his gallery in the town of Forlì in central Italy—the Art Institute owns the Saint Andrew oil. The presence of squaring in red chalk suggests the studies on this sheet were ready to be transferred to the canvas.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Provenance
- 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.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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