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Bust-Length Study of a Child
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Bust-Length Study of a Child

1708–87

Medium

Black chalk, hightlighted with white chalk, on blue-gray paper

Dimensions

6 3/16 x 7 7/16in. (15.7 x 18.9cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Thomas Williams, 1998

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Pompeo Batoni

1708–1787

He was the son of a goldsmith of Lucca; became one of the most successful painters of 18th-century Rome. Comment on works: History; Portraits