Time Unveiling Truth

1740–45

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Italian, 1708–1787)

Status: On View, Gallery 216
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Pompeo Girolamo Batoni
Title: Time Unveiling Truth
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.: 1740–1745
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 43.3 × 26.5 cm (17 1/16 × 10 7/16 in.); Framed: 52.1 × 35.6 × 3.9 cm (20 1/2 × 14 × 1 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Harold T. Martin Trust
Reference Number: 1976.291
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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.
Edgar Peters Bowron and Peter Björn Kerber, Pompeo Batoni: Prince of Painters in Eighteenth-Century Rome, ex. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007), pp. 166, 169. 205 n. 70, 206.
Edgar Peters Bowron, Pompeo Batoni: Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, vol. 1 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2016), pp. 41-42, no. 36, ill.

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

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.

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