LOT DETAILS

Materials:

red chalk, squared in red chalk

Measurements:

5.75 in. (14.60 cm.) (height) by 7.95 in. (20.20 cm.) (width)

Literature:

A.M. Clark, Pompeo Batoni. A Complete Catalogue of his Works with an Introductory Text, Oxford, 1985, no. D 97. E.P. Bowron, Pompeo Batoni. A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, New Haven and London, 2016, II, no. D 82.

Provenance:

From an album of drawings compiled in the eighteenth century. Madame Veuve Galippe, 1923, part of lot 156 (an album of 170 drawings, as by Mengs). Dr. Fritz Haussmann, Berlin. Countess Finckenstein (according to an inscription on the mount). Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 4 July 1978, lot 61. The present work 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.