Head of a young woman

Details

Gaetano Gandolfi (San Matteo della Decima 1734-1802 Bologna)
Head of a young woman
oil on canvas
17 ¾ x 14 1/8 in. (45.1 x 35.8 cm.)

Provenance

Dr. A.V. Gwinner, by whom purchased for Katharina Klügman (according to a label on the reverse).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 11 July 2002, lot 226, as Ubaldo Gandolfi (£21,510).

Lot Essay

We are grateful to Dottoressa Donatella Biagi-Maino for suggesting the attribution on the basis of a photograph (written correspondence, 5 September 2016). This early work recalls Titianesque models and Dottoressa Biagi-Maino accordingly dates the present canvas, which she calls 'veramente sqisito' [truly exquisite], to shortly after Gandolfi's trip to Venice in 1760.

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