Pompeo Batoni Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
Portrait of Duchess Sforza Cesarini
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
The 7th Earl of Northampton
Fitzwilliam Museum PHAROS Website, Cambridge, UK
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Mercury Crowning Philosophy, "Mother" of the Arts, 1747
Hercules at the Crossroads, 1765
The Continence of Scipio, ca.1771-72
The Holy Family with SS Elizabeth and John the Baptist, 1777
Thetis Takes Achilles from the Centaur Chiron, 1770
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
John Talbot, 1773
Christ in Glory with Four Saints
Kress Foundation Collection
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3 paintings online in high resolution
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
Hercules at the Crossroads, 1748 (Zoom)
Venus Presenting Aeneas with Armour Forged by Vulcan, 1748 (Zoom)
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
3 paintings
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)
Pompeo Batoni at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
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About a dozen paintings online
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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The Marchioness of Headfort Holding her Daughter Mary
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
2 works online
National Gallery, London, UK
Pompeo Batoni at the Prado Museum, Madrid
Francis Basset, I Baron of Dunstanville, 1778
The Royal Collection, London, UK
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Vatican Museums, Vatican City
Portrait of Pius VI
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Portrait of John Wodehouse
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery, Greenville, South Carolina
Boughton House, Northamptonshire, UK
Lord Brudenell in 1758
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio NEW!
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
2 works by or related to the artist
Drawings from the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
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Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington - Provenance Research Project NEW!
Pompeo Batoni in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
3 works
Museo del Corso, Rome (in Italian)
Ritratto della Principessa Giacinta Orsini Boncompagni Ludovisi
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese) NEW!
Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (in Portuguese)
National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
Allegory
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia NEW!
2 works online
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh NEW!
The Triumph of Venice, 1737
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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2 works by Pompeo Batoni online
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter, England NEW!
John Rolle Walter, 1753
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Portrait of Cardinal Jean-Francois Joseph de Rochechouart, 1762
San Diego Museum of Art, California - Provenance Research Project
Cardinal Etienne-René Potier de Gesvres, 1758
Slovenská Národná Galéria (Slovak National Gallery), Bratislava, Slovakia
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen NEW!
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Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)
Click "Immagini" to see a large image from a 2003 exhibition
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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Tyne & Wear Museums, England
Henry Swinburne, 1779
Tyne & Wear Museums Database, England
Henry Swinburne
Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland NEW!
Pompeo Batoni, James Stewart of Killymoon, 1767
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City
Portrait of Philip Livingston
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
Edward Howard, 1766
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
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Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Pompeo Batoni in the Art Renewal Center
Pompeo Batoni at CGFA
Pompeo Batoni in the Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
New York Public Library Digital Gallery NEW!
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Capella Academica, Vienna (in German)
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Dickinson Agents and Dealers in Fine Art, London, UK -- Notable past sales
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Pompeo Batoni 
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Art & Antiques Magazine
"Sensuous Surfaces: Batoni portrayed the elite as they wanted to be seen"
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
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