Study for Saint Bartholomew and Drapery

Prints and Drawings

c. 1740

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni
Italian, 1708-1787

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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Artist: Pompeo Girolamo Batoni
Title: Study for Saint Bartholomew and Drapery
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1735–1745
Medium: Red chalk, heightened with white chalk, on beige laid paper, squared for transfer with red chalk, edge mounted to blue wove card
Inscriptions: Inscribed, recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "Pompeo Batoni"
Dimensions: 28.4 × 18.1 cm (11 3/16 × 7 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2013.894
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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.

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.

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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