The leading Italian painter of eighteenth-century Rome, Batoni was especially prized as a portraitist. The sitter in this picture has not been identified , but he may be French. He is shown with some of Batoni's favourite Grand Tour props: an ancient bas-relief of Antinous , a statue of Minerva , an armillary sphere , guidebooks to ancient and modern Rome , a volume of biographies of painters, and the second part of Homer's 'Odyssey '
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Friday, 1 February 2013
' Portrait of a Young Man ' Pompeo Batoni ( Italian 1708-1787) Oil on canvas, circa 1760-1765 . Metropolitan Museum, New York.
The leading Italian painter of eighteenth-century Rome, Batoni was especially prized as a portraitist. The sitter in this picture has not been identified , but he may be French. He is shown with some of Batoni's favourite Grand Tour props: an ancient bas-relief of Antinous , a statue of Minerva , an armillary sphere , guidebooks to ancient and modern Rome , a volume of biographies of painters, and the second part of Homer's 'Odyssey '
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