A seated soldier seen from behind, figures by a horse beyond

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Gaetano Gandolfi (1734-1802)
A seated soldier seen from behind, figures by a horse beyond
with inscriptions 'D# 8 1784 Disegni del Quadro fatto dal S:r Gaetano Gandol[fi] per il Sig:r Marchese Giacomo Mariscotti nel [178. e questi sono framenti del medesimo], according to the 1902 auction catalogue (verso, partly cut)
black chalk, watermark encircled anchor below trefoil with GI
422 x 305 mm.

Provenance

A. Tomba, according to two inscriptions verso.
Possibly C.H. Marcellis (L. 609, cut).
Conte E.R. Lamponi-Leopardi (L. 1760); Florence, 10 November 1902, lot 457.
with W.R. Jeudwine, London.

Literature

P. Bagni, I Gandolfi, Bologna, 1992, no. 324.

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Lot Essay

A study for the right side of Coriolanus and his mother in the Pinacoteca Nazionale in Bologna, P. Bagni, op. cit., no. 322. The picture was commissioned in 1784 along with The Continence of Scipio, also in the Pinacoteca Nazionale, by the Marchese Giacomo Marescotti Berselli for his palace in Bologna. The drawing for Scipio, which bears the same inscription on the verso as the present sheet, is in the Albertina, Vienna (P. Bagni, op. cit., nos. 325, 327). A modello for the former picture and two for the latter are extant, P. Bagni, op. cit., nos. 323, 326 and 328.

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