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| Pompeo Batoni Figure Studies ca. 1761 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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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 Study for River God before 1787 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Pompeo Batoni Figure Study and Drapery Study before 1787 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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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 Study and Drapery Study for Caesar before 1787 drawing Harvard Art Museums |
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| Pompeo Batoni Académie 1745 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Pompeo Batoni Académie ca. 1765-68 drawing Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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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 ca. 1765 drawing Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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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 Study for Figure of Vigilance before 1787 drawing Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Pompeo Batoni Study of Seated Female Figure before 1787 drawing Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787) – Italian painter who drew from the antique and copied Raphael and whose classicizing style influenced Mengs and Gavin Hamilton. Born at Lucca, he settle in 1728 in Rome, where he painted altarpieces for churches and grand decorative schemes (notably in the Villa Borghese, Palazzo Colonna and the Casino Benedict XIV). He is chiefly known today for his portraits of European nobles and Englishmen on the Grand Tour, usually posed in front of architectural ruins or with other examples of ancient art.
– Erika Langmuir and Norbert Lynton, Yale Dictionary of Art and Artists (2000)