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Study for 'Sir Sampson Gideon and his tutor, Signor Basti' (National Gallery of Victoria, Australia)

Maker

(artist)
1708-1787

Title

Study for 'Sir Sampson Gideon and his tutor, Signor Basti' (National Gallery of Victoria, Australia)

Date of Production

1766

Medium

black and white chalk on grey-prepared laid paper, with grey ink framing lines trimmed away at the left edge

Dimensions

Height: 15 cm
Width: 17.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4450

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords




Provenance

Mrs G.W. Bennett (?); purchased from her by Colnaghi (London), 16 October 1950; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 31 October 1950, for £7; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Pompeo Batoni and his British Patrons, London & England, 08/06/1982-30/08/1982

Literature

Edgar Peters Bowron, Pompeo Batoni: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, New Haven and London/Yale University Press 2016
pp. 392, 662

Edgar Peters Bowron and Peter Bjorn Kerber, Pompeo Batoni: Prince of Painters in Eighteenth-Century Rome, Yale University Press, New Haven and London in association with The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 2008
p. 161

Clark, Anthony M., Pompeo Batoni: A Complete Catalogue of his Works with an Introductory Text, Oxford, 1985
D102 on p. 382 and p. 306 under no. 305 ...More

Pompeo Batoni (1708-87) and his British Patrons, Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood, 1982
no. 64
ill. on p. 88

Preston, Harley, 'Two Portraits by Pompeo Batoni' in 'Annual Bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria', 1964; 6
p. 14
fig. 13 ...Less

Inscriptions

Inscription: 5

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