AFTER POMPEO GIROLAMO BATONI, LUCCA, 1708 - 1787, ROME,...
AFTER POMPEO GIROLAMO BATONI, LUCCA, 1708 - 1787, ROME, A LARGE LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY OIL ON CANVAS
Penitent Magdalene held in a giltwood and gesso frame.
(sight 81.5cm x 125cm, frame 106.5cm x 150cm)
N.B. A copy after Batoni's now-lost original formerly in the Staatliche Museen, Gemäldegalerie, Dresden (see A.M. Clark, Oxford 1985, p. 226, cat. no. 60, pl. 56), By the end of 18th Century Batoni's original was widely celebrated by Art Critics and prompted numerous copies. Anton Graff alone is thought to have produced fourteen copies of the work. (See E.P. Bowron and P.B. Kerber, Pompeo Batoni, London 2007, p. 136). It is possible that the present work is an example of Graff's many copies
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AFTER POMPEO GIROLAMO BATONI, LUCCA, 1708 - 1787, ROME, A LARGE LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY OIL ON CANVAS
Penitent Magdalene held in a giltwood and gesso frame.
(sight 81.5cm x 125cm, frame 106.5cm x 150cm)
N.B. A copy after Batoni's now-lost original formerly in the Staatliche Museen, Gemäldegalerie, Dresden (see A.M. Clark, Oxford 1985, p. 226, cat. no. 60, pl. 56), By the end of 18th Century Batoni's original was widely celebrated by Art Critics and prompted numerous copies. Anton Graff alone is thought to have produced fourteen copies of the work. (See E.P. Bowron and P.B. Kerber, Pompeo Batoni, London 2007, p. 136). It is possible that the present work is an example of Graff's many copies
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