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Pompeo Batoni

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

Lot Closed

July 8, 02:29 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 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 lot 515 (as Anton Raphael Mengs);
Dr. Fritz Haussmann, Berlin;
Carmen, Countess 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)

The lot is being offered for 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)