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| Keywords: Pompeo Girolamo Batoni - Portrait of Cardinal Prospero Colonna di Sciarra - Walters 371205.jpg Batoni was particularly famous for his portraits and had many elite clients such as Cardinal Prospero Colonna di Sciarra 1708-65 who was a member of a great Roman noble family The cardinal can be identified by the letter he holds which is addressed to him The red color of the clothing of his ecclesiastic office produces an imposing effect against the dark background Batoni's virtuosity in the handling of paint comes through in the meticulous depiction of different textures such as hair silk and lace Zeri Italian paintings in the Walters Art Gallery 415 526-527 c 1750 Baroque Oil on canvas Painted surface cm 100 7 75 4 accession number 37 1205 40598 Colonna de Sciarra family Rome date and mode of acquisition unknown Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome date and mode of acquisition unknown 1897 catalogue no 288 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 Transcription Inscribed on the front of the letter held by the sitter ALL'EMINMO E REVMO PRINE / IL CARD COLONNA DE SCIARRA; Translation To the Most Eminent and Most Reverend Prince the Cardinal Colonna di Sciarra An Exhibition of the Treasures of The Walters Art Gallery The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; Pace Wildenstein Gallery New York; Smith College Museum of Art Northampton 1967 Painting in Italy in the Eighteenth Century Rococo to Romanticism The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago; Minneapolis Institute of Arts Minneapolis; Toledo Museum of Art Toledo 1970 Going for Baroque The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1995-1996 Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia; The Museum of Fine Arts Houston Houston 2000 place of origin Rome Italy <gallery>COLONNA DI SCIARRA PROSPERO jpg</gallery> Walters Art Museum license 2D Male portraits by Pompeo Batoni 18th-century portrait paintings in the Walters Art Museum 1750c Baroque paintings in the Walters Art Museum Prospero Colonna di Sciarra 18th-century oil portraits of men at half length in ecclesiastical costumes 1750c Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Portrait paintings of cardinals Three-quarter view portrait paintings of men facing left | ||||
