Figure from behind, a sword scabbard hanging from the waist
Black pencil and white chalk highlights on beige tinted paper
22.6 x 15.1 cm
Annotated "Mengs" lower right
Small folds, small stain in the upper left corner
Study for the executioner in the composition of the "Martyrdom of Saint Lucy" painted in 1759 and kept in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid (see : E.P. Bowron, Pompeo Batoni, a complete catalogue of his paintings, 2016, ed. The Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, vol. I, no. 223, p.272, repr.)
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