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.

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