Study for 'Sir Sampson Gideon and his tutor, Signor Basti' (National Gallery of Victoria, Australia)
Maker
(artist)
1708-1787
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
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
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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