Allegory in Honor of Pope Benedict XIV

ca. 1745

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Red chalk, highlighted with white, on beige paper
Dimensions: 14 3/16 x 9 13/16in. (36 x 24.9cm)
Collection no.: 1973.156
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Pompeo Batoni. Allegory in Honor of Pope Benedict XIV. Pompeo Batoni; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rogers Fund, 1973. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Allegory in Honor of Pope Benedict XIV — Pompeo Batoni. ca. 1745.

Medium: Red chalk, highlighted with white, on beige paper. Dimensions: 14 3/16 x 9 13/16in. (36 x 24.9cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1973.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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