POMPEO GIROLAMO BATONI

Portrait of Count Kirill Grigorjewitsch Razumovsky(1728-1803) full length, in a scarlet suit, wearing the star, sash and badge of the order of Saint Andrew and on his breast the Polish Order of the White Eagle, standing within a sculpture gallery with the Vatican Ariadne, Apollo Belvedere, Laocoon and the Belvedere Antinous

Measurements: 298 by 196 cm.; 117 1/2 by 77 in

signed, inscribed and dated on the sculpture base lower left: POMPEIUS BATONI PINXIT / ROMAE' / ANNO 1766'.

oil on canvas, in its original 18th-century Roman carved and gilt wood frame  

PROVENANCE

Commissioned by Count Kirill Grigorjewitsch Razumovsky (1728-1803) and painted in Rome in 1766;

Thence by direct descent to the sitter's son, Prince Andrei Kirillovich Razumovsky (1752-1836) in 1803, and hanging in the Palais Razumovsky in the Razumovskygasse from 1811;

Thence by inheritance to his second wife, Princess Constantina-Domenica Razumovsky, born Countess von Thürheim, Thürheim Castle, Schwertberg, in 1836;

Thence by descent to her late husband's nephew (by his brother Count Gregor Kyrillovich Razumovsky, 1759-1837), Count Leo Razumovsky (1814-1869), in 1867;

Thence by direct descent to his son Count Camillo Razumovsky (circa 1852-1916), Schloß Schönstein, near Troppau, Opava, from circa 1890;

Thence by direct descent to his son Count Andreas Razumovsky (1892-1981), Schloß Schönstein, near Troppau, Opava, until 1946;

Thence by direct family descent to the present owner.

EXHIBITED

Rome, Museo di Roma, Il Settecento a Roma, 19 March - 31 May 1959, no. 44;

Waddesden Manor, Buckinghamshire, The National Trust, on loan 1997-1999;

Frankfurt, Städelsches Kunstinsitut and Städtische Galerie, Mehr Licht: Eurpa um 1770. Die bildende Kunst der Aufklärung, 22 August 1999 - 9 January 2000, no. 11;

Philadelphia, Museum of Art, 16 March - 28 May 2000, and Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, 25 June - 7 September 2000, Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, no. 171;

Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, on loan 2000-2001;

Rome, Il Quirinale, Autumn 2004, and Moscow, Pushkin Museum, Spring 2005, Italy-Russia, From Giotto to Malevich;

Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Pompeo Batoni, Prince of Painters in Eighteenth Century Rome, 21 October 2007 - 27 January 2008, no. 62.

LITERATURE AND REFERENCES

A. Vasil'cikov, The Razumovsky Family, St. Petersburg 1887, vol. IV, p. 401;

Grand Duke Nicholas Romanoff Mikhailovitch, Portraits Russes des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles, St. Petersburg 1906, vol. II, no. 13, reproduced plate 13;

Il Settecento a Roma, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Museo di Roma, 19 March - 31 May 1959, cat. no. 44, reproduced plate18;

V. Antonov, Clienti Russi del Batoni, Antologia di Belle Arti, 1977, vol. I, pp. 351 and 353, footnote 6;

S. Rudolph ed., La Pittura del '700 a Roma, Milan 1983, reproduced plate 57;

E.P. Bowron, ''Le Portrait de Charles John Crowe par Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787); les 'dilettanti' et le 'Grand Tour'', in Revue du Louvre, vol. 35, no. I, 1985, p. 29, reproduced fig. 4;

A.M. Clark, Pompeo Batoni : A Complete Catalogue of his Works with an Introductory Text, ed. E.P. Bowron, Oxford 1985, pp. 303-04, cat. no. 299, reproduced plate 274;

S. Pinto, "La Corte Russa e L'Europa: simboli conduisi dell'assolutismo e oggetti di scambio diplomatico", in B. Alfieri ed., San Pietroburgo, 1703-1825: Arte di Corte dal Museo dell'Ermitage, pp. 347-60, Milan 1991, pp. 350-351 and 356;

H. Brigstocke, in Masterpieces from Yorkshire Houses, exhibition catalogue, York, City Art Gallery, 29 January - 20 March 1994, p. 70, under no. 31;

E.P. Bowron, in The Dictionary of Art, London 1996, vol. III, p. 382;

B. Allen, in Grand Tour. The Lure of Italy in the Eighteenth Century, exhibition catalogue, London, Tate Gallery, 10 October 1996 - 5 January 1997, p. 59, under no. 16;

H. Beck, P.C. Bol & M. Bückling eds., Mehr Licht: Europa um 1770. Die bildende Kunst der Aufklärung, exhibition catalogue, Frankfurt, Städelsches Kunstinsitut and Städtische Galerie, 22 August 1999 - 9 January 2000, pp. 30-31, cat. no. 11, reproduced in colour;

E.P. Bowron & J.J. Rishel, Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, exhibition catalogue, Philadelphia, Museum of Art, 16 March - 28 May 2000; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, 25 June - 7 September 2000, pp. 315-17, cat. no. 171, reproduced in colour;

E.P. Bowron & P. Björn Kerber, Pompeo Batoni, Prince of Painters in Eighteenth Century Rome, exhibition catalogue, Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, 21 October 2007- 27 January 2008; London, National Gallery, 20 February - 18 May 2008, pp. 84, 106-7, 109, 168-9, 172, and 179, cat. no. 62, reproduced in colour on p. 107, fig. 96.