Lot Essay
Dated to the 1780s by Prisco Bagni (op. cit.), and to the early 1790s by Donatella Biagi Maino (op. cit.), this bozzetto has not yet been identified with a finished painting by the artist.
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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (LOTS 221, 215 & 217)
Gaetano Gandolfi (Matteo della Decima, near Bologna 1734-1802 Bologna)
An Allegory of the Sacrament of Baptism - a bozzetto
Details
Gaetano Gandolfi (Matteo della Decima, near Bologna 1734-1802 Bologna)
An Allegory of the Sacrament of Baptism - a bozzetto
oil on canvas
11¾ x 9 1/8 in. (29.9 x 23.1 cm.)
An Allegory of the Sacrament of Baptism - a bozzetto
oil on canvas
11¾ x 9 1/8 in. (29.9 x 23.1 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 16 May 1996, lot 259 ($17,250).
Literature
P. Bagni, I Gandolfi, Affreschi Dipinti Bozzetti Disegni, Padua, 1992, p. 367, no. 345.
D. Biagi Maino, Gaetano Gandolfi, Turin, 1995, p. 397, no. 195, fig. 223.
D. Biagi Maino, Gaetano Gandolfi, Turin, 1995, p. 397, no. 195, fig. 223.
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