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Don José Moñino y Redondo, Conde de Floridablanca
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Italian, 1708–1787)
c. 1776
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- 99.7 × 75 cm (39 1/4 × 29 5/8 in.); Framed: 118.8 × 93.7 × 6.1 cm (46 3/4 × 36 7/8 × 2 3/8 in.)
- Culture
- Italy
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
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About this work
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.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
