Time Orders Old Age to Destroy Beauty

Time Orders Old Age to Destroy Beauty is a 1746 allegorical oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian artist Pompeo Batoni. 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. It came into the collection of the Russian count Nikolai Alexandrovich Kushelev-Bezborodko, before being acquired in 1961 by the National Gallery, London where it now hangs.^[1]

Time Orders Old Age to Destroy Beauty
Artist	Pompeo Batoni
Year	1746
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	135,3 cm × 96,5 cm (533 in × 380 in)
Location	National Gallery, London
Website	Catalogue entry