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Pompeo Batoni

Portrait of a Gentleman, c. 1762

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 32

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 75.3 x 63.5 cm (29 5/8 x 25 in.)

framed: 94 x 81.1 x 6.4 cm (37 x 31 15/16 x 2 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle

Accession Number

2004.86.1

Artists / Makers

Pompeo Batoni (painter) Italian, 1708 - 1787

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Provenance

(Spanierman Gallery, New York), in 1965; purchased 15 February 1967 by Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York;[1] gift 2004 to NGA.

[1] A copy of the invoice is in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

McCrindle, Joseph F.
Spanierman Gallery

Exhibition History

1982: Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787). A Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Colnaghi, New York, 1982, no. 18.

Bibliography

1985: Clark, Anthony M. Pompeo Batoni. A Complete Catalogue of his Works with an Introductory Text. Edited and prepared for publication by Edgar Peters Bowron. New York, 1985: 285, no. 246, pl. 227.

2012: Grasselli, Margaret M., and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., eds. The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2012: 9, 15, fig. 4, 19, repro. 184.

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