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| Pompeo Batoni Figure-study for Polyphemus ca. 1761 drawing Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro |
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| Pompeo Batoni Figure-studies ca. 1761 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Pompeo Batoni Drapery and Figure-studies for St James condemned to Martyrdom before 1787 drawing Harvard Art Museums |
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| Pompeo Batoni Académie ca. 1765-68 drawing Museo del Prado, Madrid |
"The present work [directly above] is drawn from a life model, as practised in Roman academies at that time. Artists could do so at official or private academies, or even in independently organised classes. Batoni participated in an academy held at the home of Sebastiano Conca, and as a teacher at the Accademia Capitolina del Nudo, also known as the Accademia del Disegno, where, according to Edgar Peters Bowron, he supervised the life classes. Thus Batoni made drawings of this type as a student, but also throughout his career. This Museo del Prado drawing is very similar to a group of works dating from the 1760s and 1770s that Batoni created independently, rather than as studies for paintings. . . . Unlike Baroque artists who made academic drawings with red chalk, Batoni used a technique of preparing the paper with a thick coat of greenish tempera to give the rough surface a velvety finish. He then drew on it with a very sharp black pencil and enhanced the forms and highlights with white chalk. This technique required considerable dexterity, as it was impossible to erase errors without destroying the prepared surface."
– from curator's notes at Museo del Prado
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| Pompeo Batoni Drapery and Figure-study before 1787 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Pompeo Batoni Figure-study for River God before 1787 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Pompeo Batoni Figure-study for Hercules at the Crossroads ca. 1740-42 drawing Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Pompeo Batoni Figure-studies before 1787 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Pompeo Batoni Académie ca. 1745 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Pompeo Batoni Académie before 1787 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Pompeo Batoni Académie 1765 drawing Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Pompeo Batoni Académie 1765 drawing Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Pompeo Batoni Académie ca. 1765 drawing Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| Pompeo Batoni Académie ca. 1765 drawing Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| Pompeo Batoni Académie before 1787 drawing Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille |