Currently not on view
Madonna and Child in Glory,
1747
Pompeo Batoni, Italian, 1708–1787
y1977-51
Information
Title
Madonna and Child in Glory
Dates
1747
Maker
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
Type
Subject
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.
- Egidio Calzini, "La Galleria Merenda in Forli e le pitture del Batoni in essa contenute", Arte e storia 15 (n.s. 7), no. 14 (Jul. 25, 1896): p. 129-130+Arte e storia 15 (n.s. 7) no. 18, (Sept. 30, 1896): p. 138-139., p. 130; no. 141 in collection hand-list
- Luisa Marcucci, "Pompeo Batoni a Forli", Emporium 99, no. 599 (1944): p. 95-105., p. 95, note 1; no. 205 in hand-list
- Claus Grimm, Alte Bilderrahmen: Epochen, Typen, Material, (München: Callwey, 1977)., p. 105, fig. 207
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1977," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 37, no. 1 (1978): p. 28-40., p. 28
- Rona Goffen, "Italian School XVII-XVIII centuries", in Leslie Shore, ed., Small paintings of the masters: masterpieces reproduced in actual size, (Redding, CT: Woodbine books, 1980)., Vol. 2: p. 174, no. 174
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Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787): a loan exhibition of paintings, November 17 to December 18, 1982, (New York: Colnaghi, 1982).
, p. 28-29, no. 10 (illus.) - Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones, Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 248 (illus.)
- Pieroaolo Quieto, Giovanni V di Portogallo e le sue committenze nella Roma del XVIII secolo: la pittura a Mafra, Evora, Lisbona, (Firenze?: P. Quieto, 1988)., p. 58
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Edgar Peters Bowron and Peter Bjorn Kerber, Pompeo Batoni: Prince of Painters in Eightenneth-Century Rome (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007).
, p. 164 (illus.), 165, 178 - Edgar Peters Bowron, Pompeo Batoni: a complete catalogue of his paintings, (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press in association with The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, 2016)., Vol. 1: p. 120-121; cat. no. 103 (illus.)
