Pompeo Girolamo Batoni
Italian, 1708–1787

Time Unveiling Truth, 1740/45

Oil on canvas
17 1/16 x 10 7/16 in. (43.3 x 26.5 cm)
Harold T. Martin Trust, 1976.291

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Colnaghi, Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787), A Loan Exhibition of Paintings, 1982, cat. by Edgar Peters Bowron, cat. 7 (ill.)

Publication History

The Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1976-77 (Chicago, 1977), pp. 26 (ill.), 27.

La Chronique des Arts: Supplément à la “Gazette des Beaux Arts” Mars 1977, p. 51 (ill.)

Anthony M. Clark, Pompeo Batoni: A Complete Catalogue of His Works with an Intoductory Text, ed. by Edgar Peters Bowron (Oxford, 1985), pp. 220-21, no. 42, pl. 43, as Allegory of Time, Justice, and the Arts.

Ownership History

Possibly Cardinal Silvio Valenti Gonzaga (died 1765) [Clark 1985]; then by descent, possibly Valenti Gonzaga’s nephew, Cardinal Luigi Valenti Gonzaga (died 1808); a noble Florentine family. Private collection, Rome [Clark 1985]. P. & D. Colnaghi, London, 1975. Galerie Bruno Meissner Switzerland, by 1976; sold to Art Institute, 1976.