Live Auction 6451Works of Art from the Collection of the late Lord Forte & An Interior by Francoise de Pfyffer
After Giovanni Maria Morandi
Lot 329

After Giovanni Maria Morandi

Portrait of Pope Innocent XI (1611-1689), bust-length

Closed12 July 2012

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GBP 600

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After Giovanni Maria Morandi
Portrait of Pope Innocent XI (1611-1689), bust-length
oil on canvas
28¾ x 23 in. (73 x 58.4 cm.)
in a gilt frame

Aloys-Robert Balthasar (according to an inscription on the reverse).

Specialist note

This portrait derives from a composition by the Italian painter Giovanni Maria Morandi (Florence 1622-1717 Rome) and his studio, now in Palazzo Chigi at Ariccia. Innocent XI was born Benedetto Odescalchi in Como in 1611 and died in Rome in 1689. He was elected pope in 1676 after fifty days of conclave. His pontificate was characterised by a strenuous defense of Catholic Counter-Reformation ideals in the face of what he saw as a progressive corruption of mores.