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Pompeo Batoni

Recto: Studies of Hercules for The Choice of Hercules Verso: ൩Drapery studies

Lot Closed

July 6, 12:46 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 4,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Pompeo Batoni

Lucques 1708 - 1787 Rome

Recto: Studies of Hercules for The Choice of Hercules

Verso: Drapery studies


Red chalk heightened with white, on blue paper

395 by 272 mm

Private Collection, UK;

Veuve Galippe, Amsterdam,

her sale, Amsterdam, de Vries, 27-29 March 1923, part of lotꦦ 515 (as Anton Rap🐭hael Mengs);

Dr. Fritz Haussmann, Berlin;

Carmen, Coun🌌tess Finckenstein🍃, Zurich and Ascona; 

with Yvonne ffrench, London, Exhibition of Old Master and Early English Drawings, presented by Yvonne ffrench at the Alpine Club Gallery, 1960, no. 27;

with Helene Seiferheld, New York;

Private Collection, New York;

with Spencer Samuels, New York, by 1991,

where acquired by Dr. John O'Brien (L.4230),

his sale, New York, Sotheby's, From Taddeo to Tiepolo: The Dr. John O'Brien Collection of Old Master Drawings, 27 January 2021, lot 266;

sale, London, Sotheby's, 8 July 2021, lot 112


The lot is being offered fo🔜r sale pursuant to an agreement between the consignor and the heir of Dr. Fritz🦹 Haussmann. This resolves any dispute over ownership of the work and title will pass to the buyer.

A.M. Clark and E.P. Bowron, Pompeo Batoni, A Complete Catalogue of his Works with an Introductory Text, London 1985, p. 383 no. D108 (as black chalk) and erroneously repeated as D150;
E.P. Bowron, Pompeo Batoni: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, 2 vols, Houston 2016, vol I, p. 216, under cat. no. 184 and vol, II, p. 662, no. D90 (not reproduced)