- Artist
- Pompeo Batoni
- Year
- 1761
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
Public Domain
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Diana and Cupid by Pompeo Batoni depicts the goddess of the hunt in an intimate moment with her son Cupid. Batoni was the leading painter in Rome during the eighteenth century, renowned for his mythological subjects and the Grand Tour portraits that made him the most sought-after artist for visiting English aristocrats.