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Balthazar allo specchio, 1984

Archive number

GPC-0594

English title

Balthazar at the Mirror

Technique

Red pencil and collage on paper

Dimensions

50 x 70 cm

Collection

Private collection, Rome

Sources

• Antique print portraying the gardens of Villa Medici.
• Self-portrait of the young Balthus, unknown source.

Exhibitions

1985	Rome, Galleria Pieroni, Giulio Paolini. Giochi d’acqua, from 15 February.

Bibliography

•	Il Giardino d’Europa. Pratolino come modello nella cultura europea, exhibition catalogue, Florence, Palazzo Medici Riccardi and Pratolino, Villa Demidoff (Milan: Mazzotta Editore, 1986), repr. p. 178.

Entry by Maddalena Disch, 15/05/2026