POMPEO GIROLAMO BATONI

POMPEO GIROLAMO BATONI. 1708-1787 Thetis Entrusting Chiron with the Education of Achilles. 1771

Oil on canvas. 226.5 × 297.5 cm

Acquisitions 1771. From the second half of the 19th century housed in the Gatchina Palace (near St. Pe­tersburg) and in 1926 returned to the Hermitage. Inv. No. 2608

POMPEO GIROLAMO BATONI. 1708-1787 Hercules between Love and Wisdom

Oil on canvas. 245 × 172 cm

Signed and dated, bottom left: Pompeius Batoni Lucensis pinxit Romae anno 1765

Acquisitions 1925. Formerly in the Yusupov Palace Mu­seum (Leningrad). Inv. No. 4793