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Pompeo Batoni

Male Nude Reclining on a Bed, c. 1745

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Medium

red chalk on laid paper washed ocher

Dimensions

sheet: 20.5 x 15 cm (8 1/16 x 5 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Clark 1985, no. D220

Accession Number

2007.111.49

Artists / Makers

Pompeo Batoni (artist) Italian, 1708 - 1787

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Inscription

Signed at bottom right in brown ink: Pompeo Batoni

Provenance

Herbert List, Munich [1903-1975] (Lugt 4063); Ursula and Adolf Ratjen, Vaduz, for Wolfgang Ratjen; Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

List, Herbert
Ratjen, Ursula and Adolf
Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

1977: Stiftung Ratjen. Italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts, Graphische Sammlung, Munich; Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin; Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf; Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart. Munich, 1977: 238. no. 110.

1979: Zeichnungen Italiensicher Meister aus den Sammlungen Schloss Fachsenfed, Stiftung Ratjen Vaduz. Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung Munich, Kunstmuseum Luzern. Lucerne, 1979: 96, no. 164 (not reproduced).

2011: Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011, no. 47.

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: 237 (under no. 102), 387, no. D 220.

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