DETAILS
- Artist
- Pompeo Batoni
- Date
- 1708
- Medium
- Black chalk, hightlighted with white chalk, on blue-gray paper
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- 6 3/16 x 7 7/16in. (15.7 x 18.9cm)
- Collection
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Gift of Thomas Williams, 1998
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THE ARTIST
Pompeo Batoni
Pompeo Batoni, the 18th-century Italian painter, captured the Grand Tour elite, from British gentlemen to European royalty, in his elegant portraits.
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