Portrait of an Architect and Sculptor

ca. 1750-1775 (Baroque)

74.6 cm 98.4 cm

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The unidentified sitter presents himself as a sculptor by the stylus for sculpting clay in his right hand, and as an architect by the compass and architectural drawing on the table. Behind him is a statue of Roma, the female personification of the city of Rome, while through t...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquistion unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 527, as A. R. Mengs]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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