Pompeo Batoni
Pompeo Batoni — training under Sebastiano Conca is recorded. the recorded working language is Italian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. The authority associates the name with Classicism. Membership is recorded of Accademia delle Arti del Disegno. Works named in the authority record are Truth and Mercy, Peace and Justice, Charles Joseph Crowle and The Ecstasy of St Catherine. Work by Pompeo Batoni is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Städel Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Museo del Prado and Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. Pompeo Batoni is recorded in the structured authority under the identifier Q505613. The same evidence establishes that pompeo Batoni died in 1787 at Rome. It is also recorded that pompeo Batoni is recorded with the citizenship of Italy. The register further records that pompeo Batoni is recorded as painter.
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Origins and background
The following is established of origins and background.
Pompeo Batoni died in 1787 at Rome. It is also recorded that pompeo Batoni is recorded at birth as Pompeo Girolamo Battoni. The register further records that pompeo Batoni was born in 1708 at Lucca.
Works and production
The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count.
Pope Benedict XIV presenting the Encyclical 'Ex Omnibus' to the Comte de Stainville, later Duc de Choiseul is dated 1757 and held by Minneapolis Institute of Art (inventory 61.62). Institutional cataloguing adds that wikidata Query Service catalogues 40 works under this heading. Institutional cataloguing adds that open Library catalogues 6 works under this heading. Institutional cataloguing adds that the Metropolitan Museum of Art catalogues 2 works under this heading.
The Art Institute of Chicago catalogues 3 works under this heading. It is also recorded that the Cleveland Museum of Art catalogues 2 works under this heading. The same evidence establishes that wellcome Collection catalogues 3 works under this heading. Institutional cataloguing adds that the Return of the Prodigal Son is dated 1773 and held by Kunsthistorisches Museum (inventory GG_148).
Truth and Mercy is dated 1745 and held by Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (inventory 1979.20). Peace and Justice is dated 1745 and held by Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (inventory 1979.21). The Virgin of the Annunciation is dated 1741 and held by Department of Paintings of the Louvre (inventory INV 99). Atis and Galathea is dated 1761 and held by Nationalmuseum (inventory NM 6662).
Diana and Cupid is dated 1761 and held by Metropolitan Museum of Art (inventory 1982.438). The Rotterdam tobacco trader Pieter Caarten is dated 1778 and held by Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (inventory 1032 (OK)). Institutional cataloguing adds that christ in Glory with Saints Celsus, Julian, Marcionilla and Basilissa is dated 1736 and held by J. Paul Getty Museum (inventory 69.PA.3). Institutional cataloguing adds that peace and War is dated 1776 and held by Art Institute of Chicago (inventory 1998.152).
The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche is dated 1756 and held by Gemäldegalerie Berlin (inventory 504). Institutional cataloguing adds that thetis takes Achilles from the Centaur Chiron is dated 1770 and held by Hermitage Museum (inventory ГЭ-2608). The register further records that the infant Hercules strangling serpents in his cradle is dated 1743 and held by Palazzo Pitti. It is also recorded that the Crucifixion is dated 1762 and held by Museum of Fine Arts Boston (inventory 1987.296).
Collections and holdings
Institutional holdings are recorded as follows.
The Fall of Simon Magus (1745) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive. Institutional cataloguing adds that study for "Antiochus and Stratonice" (1746) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive. Institutional cataloguing adds that diana and Cupid (1761) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive. Three Nude Male Figures; Study of the Right Hand of the Figure on the Left (1708) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art records 7 objects associated with this name. National Trust records 23 objects associated with this heading. The same evidence establishes that hermitage Museum records 7 objects associated with this heading. It is also recorded that department of Paintings of the Louvre records 6 objects associated with this heading.
Art Institute of Chicago records 4 objects associated with this heading. It is also recorded that national Gallery records 4 objects associated with this heading. Institutional cataloguing adds that national Galleries Scotland records 4 objects associated with this heading. Basildon Park records 4 objects associated with this heading.
Walters Art Museum records 3 objects associated with this heading. National Gallery of Victoria records 3 objects associated with this heading. Institutional cataloguing adds that yale Center for British Art records 3 objects associated with this heading. It is also recorded that the Metropolitan Museum of Art records 7 objects associated with this heading.
The Art Institute of Chicago records 8 objects associated with this heading. Institutional cataloguing adds that the Cleveland Museum of Art records 2 objects associated with this heading. The record continues: wellcome Collection records 3 objects associated with this heading.
Sources and evidence
This entry is compiled from 10 catalogued sources across 9 independent registers. The registers consulted are Internet Archive, Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Cleveland Museum of Art, DOAJ, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and Wellcome Collection. Every statement above is held against the register that stated it; where the registers are silent, the entry is silent.
In detail
training under Sebastiano Conca is recorded. the recorded working language is Italian.
Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. The authority associates the name with Classicism.
Membership is recorded of Accademia delle Arti del Disegno.
Works named in the authority record are Truth and Mercy, Peace and Justice, Charles Joseph Crowle and The Ecstasy of St Catherine.
Work by Pompeo Batoni is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Städel Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Museo del Prado and Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum.
Sources
Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.
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Open Library author record for Pompeo Batoni (Internet Archive), 6 catalogued works.
Institutional database · Scholarly · Internet Archive
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q505613: Pompeo Batoni
Institutional database · Scholarly · Wikimedia Foundation
Consult the source - 3.
“Pompeo Batoni”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
Consult the source - 4.
Directory of Open Access Journals lists 2 articles naming Pompeo Batoni.
open access index · Unverified
Consult the source - 5.
Gemeinsame Normdatei 1211781-X, Mostra di Pompeo Batoni (1967 : Lucca).
authority file · Unverified · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
Consult the source - 6.
Internet Archive, 8 digitised items catalogued under Pompeo Batoni as creator.
digital repository · Unverified
Consult the source - 7.
The Art Institute of Chicago, collection records associated with Pompeo Batoni.
museum collection · Unverified · The Art Institute of Chicago
Consult the source - 8.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, open access collection records associated with Pompeo Batoni.
museum collection · Unverified · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Consult the source - 9.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, collection records associated with Pompeo Batoni (7 objects).
museum collection · Unverified · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Consult the source - 10.
Wellcome Collection catalogue records 3 works naming Pompeo Batoni.
museum collection · Unverified · Wellcome Collection
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Plates
Each plate is reproduced under the terms the holding register itself publishes, with its creator and licence named.

Portrait of Robert Udny (1722-1802), half-length, in a gold-trimmed coat, holding a hat and gloves in his right hand, the Temple of the Sybil at Tivoli Beyond.
Pompeo Batoni · Sotheby's, lot.326 · Public domain
The picture record
Portrait of John Monck (1735–1809) of Bath, Master of Ceremonies.
artist Pompeo Batoni · https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/john-monck-133034 · Public domain
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