Allegory of Peace and War
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Italian, 1708–1787)
1776
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Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.
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About this work
Pompeo Batoni’s grand portraits and numerous religious and historical commissions established him as the leading Roman painter of his day. He painted Peace and War on his own initiative, without a commission, attracting critical praise for the work’s graceful invention. It combines elements of Rococo softness and eroticism with the newly fashionable Neoclassical style. War, represented by the god Mars, is restrained by a personification of peace, who bears an olive branch.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 136 × 99 cm (53 1/2 × 39 in.)
Museum record · 2 owners · 1 exhibition
Provenance
- In the artist’s studio from 1776 until at least January of 1781.
- Probably Comtesse Clotilde Eugénie d’Oultremont (née van den Steen de Jehay, 1850–1932); by descent to her daughter Elisabeth von Furstenberg (née d’Oultremont, died 1953), Brussels; by descent to her son Maximilien, Cardinal von Furstenberg (died 1988), Brussels, Lisbon, and Vatican City; by descent to his nephew Comte Wenemar de Furstenberg, Belgium; sold through Jean-François Heim, Paris, to the Art Institute, 1998.
Exhibitions
- Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Pompeo Batoni: Prince of Painters in Eighteenth-century Rome, October 21, 2007-January 27, 2008; National Gallery, London, February 20-May 18, 2008.
