Saint James the Less
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Lucca 1708 – Rome 1787)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1740 - 1743
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
73 x 60.5cm (28¾ x 23¾ in)
Order this imageCollection
Basildon Park, Berkshire
NT 266909
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Saint James the Less by Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Lucca 1708 – Rome 1787), 1740-43. A half-length stands at angle, right shoulder forward. Left hand holds club diagonally against him, while right hand on chest. Eyes look up, pale brown hair and beard, mauve tunic and white cloak. Moulded gilt frame. Part of set with NT/BAS/P/12-15,18-20.
Provenance
Commissioned by Count Cesare (1700-1754) and Fra Giuseppe (1687-1760) Merenda, for the picture-gallery of the Palazzo Merenda, Forlì, c.1740-43; there till 1945; Villa Merenda - Salecchi, nr. Forlì, till 1959, when sold (probably via M. & C. Sestieri, Rome) to the dealer Julius Weitzner, London; with P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, 1959-60; [bought from Sotheby's 12th June 1968 and sold to Lord Iliffe on 28th June 1968] by whom sold in 1960 to Lord & Lady Iliffe; by whom presented to the National Trust, together with the house and grounds of Basildon Park, and a substantial part of their collection of paintings, in 1979
Credit line
Basildon Park, The Iliffe Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Lucca 1708 – Rome 1787), artist
Exhibition history
Souvenirs of the Grand Tour, Wildenstein, London, 1982, no.4
References
Clark and Bowron 1985 Anthony M. Clark & Edgar Peters Bowron (ed.), Pompeo Batoni A Complete Catalogue of his Works with an Introductory Text, Oxford 1985, no. 79