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Portrait of Pope Clement XIII  1759

by Anton Raphaël Mengs

[i]Workshop of Anton Raphael Mengs[/i] [br]Clement XIII was of the Venetian Rezzonico family and reigned as pope from 1758 to 1769. Mengs did several versions of Clement's portrait, and this one was probably carried out for Apostolic Vicar Domenico Rossi, whose name appears on the letter held by the pope. For centuries, the blessing gesture directed to the viewer had been ...
Size: 
H: 54 3/16 x W: 38 11/16 in. (137.7 x 98.2 cm)
Medium: 
oil on canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of the Walters Art Museum