Pompeo Batoni, copia da

oil painting on canvas

53 x 41 cm

good quality replica of a painting by Pompeo Batoni reported in the eighteenth-century collection of Cesare and Fra Giuseppe Merenda in Forlì, and then passed onto the Parisian market (see EP Bowron, Pompeo Batoni: a complete catalog of his paintings, New Haven; London, 2016, cat. 41), of which numerous versions are known, including at least three believed to be autographed (see Bowron 2016, cat. 42-43-44). The work has numerous cracks and the state of conservation is discreet, framed