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Source Description
Clement XIII was of the Venetian Rezzonico family and reigned as pope from 1758 to 1769. Mengs did several versions of Clement's portrait, and this one was probably carried out for Apostolic Vicar Domenico Rossi, whose name appears on the letter held by the pope. For centuries, the blessing gesture directed to the viewer had been common in images of Christ's representative on earth.Mengs rejected the fluid brushstrokes and dynamic pictorial expressions of Baroque and Rococo art. Clarity of forms and outlines, typical of Neoclassicism, defines his manner.For more information on this portrait, please see Federico Zeri's 1976 catalogue no. 424, pp. 534-535.
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Document identity
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31435
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Portrait of Pope Clement XIII
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drawing
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title
Portrait of Pope Clement XIII
description
Clement XIII was of the Venetian Rezzonico family and reigned as pope from 1758 to 1769. Mengs did several versions of Clement's portrait, and this one was probably carried out for Apostolic Vicar Domenico Rossi, whose name appears on the letter held by the pope. For centuries, the blessing gesture directed to the viewer had been common in images of Christ's representative on earth.Mengs rejected the fluid brushstrokes and dynamic pictorial expressions of Baroque and Rococo art. Clarity of forms and outlines, typical of Neoclassicism, defines his manner.For more information on this portrait, please see Federico Zeri's 1976 catalogue no. 424, pp. 534-535.
provenance
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 779, as Pope Clement VIII by Subleyras]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1759 (Baroque)
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CC0
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en
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Painting & Drawing
oil paintings (visual works)
portraits
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2
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2
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import
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cm
width
137.7
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98.2
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Pained surface H: 54 3/16 x W: 38 11/16 in. (137.7 x 98.2 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Transcription] On letter: PER
DOMENICO
ROSSI
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oil on canvas
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