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Time orders Old Age to destroy Beauty

Time orders Old Age to destroy Beauty

Pompeo Batoni

1746

National Gallery

City of Westminster, United Kingdom

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Description

painting by Pompeo Batoni

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Medium

oil paint

Dimensions

135.3 × 96.5 cm

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💡 Did you know

It was commissioned from him by Bartolomeo Talenti, a collector from Lucca, as a pendant for La lascivia, now in the Hermitage Museum. It shows personifications of Time as an old man with a scythe, Old Age as an old woman and Beauty as a young woman.