Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Italian, 1708–1787)
Don José Moñino y Redondo, Conde de Floridablanca
INV-4757
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Italian, 1708–1787)c. 1776
Don José Moñino y Redondo, Conde de Floridablanca
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Italian, 1708–1787) →18th Centuryoil on canvasItalian
Date
c. 1776
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
99.7 × 75 cm (39 1/4 × 29 5/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
In addition to executing portraits of prominent travelers in Rome, Pompeo Batoni often painted important ambassadors and diplomats to the Vatican. The Count of Floridablanca, a brilliant lawyer and author of texts on jurisprudence, served as King Charles III of Spain’s ambassador to the Holy See between 1772 and 1776. He probably posed for Batoni in the months before he was recalled to Charles’s court. Here, the dignified Floridablanca, who wears the Order of Charles III, appears to have been momentarily interrupted while reading a letter.
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