Diana and Cupid, 1761, Oil on canvas, 49 x 68 in. (124.5 x 172.7 cm), Paintings, Pompeo Batoni (Italian, Lucca 1708–1787 Rome), The picture was painted for Sir Humphrey Morice (1723–1785), son of a wealthy merchant and director of the Bank of England. Morice was a great animal lover and commissioned from Batoni a portrait of himself reclining in the Roman countryside after the hunt as a pendant to this picture, which shows the goddess of the hunt withholding the bow from Cupid
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Diana, Cupid, 1761, Oil, canvas, 49 x 68, 124.5 172.7 cm, Paintings, Pompeo Batoni, Italian, Lucca, 1708–1787, Rome, picture, painted, Sir Humphrey, Morice, 1723–1785, son, wealthy merchant, director, Bank, England, great animal, lover, commissioned, Batoni, portrait, reclining, Roman countryside, hunt, pendant, goddess, hunt withholding, bow
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