rjtyler:BATONI, PompeoItalian painter, Roman school (b. 1708, Lucca, d. 1787, Roma)Sensuality1747Oil
rjtyler:BATONI, PompeoItalian painter, Roman school (b. 1708, Lucca, d. 1787, Roma)Sensuality1747Oil on canvas, 138 x 100 cmThe Hermitage, St. PetersburgThe companion-piece of the painting, Time Orders Old Age to Destroy Beauty, is in the National Gallery, London. The two paintings, commissioned by Bartolomeo Talenti, are mentioned together in a letter of the artist (now in the archive at Lucca). -- source link