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Pompeo Batoni Italian
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 627
Sir Humphrey Morice (1723–1785), son of a wealthy merchant and director of the Bank of England, commissioned this image of the goddess of hunting. It hung as a pendant, or companion piece, to Batoni’s portrait of Morice re-clining in the Roman countryside next to his dogs, rifle, and dead game. Together, the works contrast modern and ancient Rome in the manner of Giovanni Paolo Panini’s two canvases found nearby. Diana’s distinctive pose is based on a famous ancient statue of the sleeping Cretan princess Ariadne. Batoni inserts a literal tension into this otherwise staid composition with the elegantly lifted bow, which Diana withholds from Cupid.
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Title: Diana and Cupid
Artist: Pompeo Batoni (Italian, Lucca 1708–1787 Rome)
Date: 1761
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 49 x 68 in. (124.5 x 172.7 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Purchase, The Charles Engelhard Foundation, Robert Lehman Foundation Inc., Mrs. Haebler Frantz, April R. Axton, L. H. P. Klotz, and David Mortimer Gifts; and Gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, George Blumenthal, and J. Pierpont Morgan, Bequests of Millie Bruhl Fredrick and Mary Clark Thompson, and Rogers Fund, by exchange, 1982
Accession Number: 1982.438
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 7, Europe in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Masterpiece Paintings
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European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born before 1865: A Summary Catalogue
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