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Madonna and Child in Glory,

1747

Pompeo Batoni, Italian, 1708–1787
y1977-51

More Context

<p>The image of the Madonna and Child permeates Roman Catholic art in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Batoni studied in Rome and based his style partly on Raphael. His own first commission was for a Madonna and Child painting for a family chapel in 1739, which won wide acclaim. A painter working in a restrained classical manner, Batoni befriended the German art historian and archaeologist Johann Joachim Winkelmann (1717–1768), and British Grand Tourists commissioned from him portraits of themselves amid the antiquities or ruins of Rome. </p>

Information

Title
Madonna and Child in Glory
Dates

1747

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
41.6 × 23 cm (16 3/8 × 9 1/16 in.) frame: 55.2 × 36 × 5.7 cm (21 3/4 × 14 3/16 × 2 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of George L. Craig Jr., Class of 1921, and Mrs. Craig
Object Number
y1977-51
Place Made

Europe, Italy

Signatures
Signed on globe: PONPEO BATONI PINS
Culture
Materials

Count Cesare Merenda (1700-1714) and Fra Giuseppe Merenda (1687-1760), Palazzo Merenda, Forli, 1740s; transferred to Villa Merenda-Salecchi, Monda, 1945; thence by family descent until c. 1958; private collection, Rome; with P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, 1975; with Edward SpeelmanLtd., London, and Galerie Bruno Meissner, Zurich, 1976-77; purchased from the latter by the museum in 1977 with funds given by George L. Craig, Jr., Class of 1921, and Mrs. Craig.