Portrait of Cardinal Prospero Colonna di Sciarra

ca. 1750 (Baroque)

75.4 cm 100.7 cm

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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...

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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, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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