Gaetano Gandolfi (San Martino della Decima 1734-1802 Bologna)

The head of Christ in profile to the right

细节

Gaetano Gandolfi (San Martino della Decima 1734-1802 Bologna)
The head of Christ in profile to the right
with inscriptions 'di Gaetano Gandolfi' (recto, red chalk and verso, pen and brown ink)
red and white chalk on light brown paper, watermark encircled F M below trefoil, losses at the corners made up
17¼ x 12½ in. (437 x 316 mm.)

来源

Carlo Frigerio, his mark (not in Lugt).
With P.& D. Colnaghi, London, 1983.

出版

M. Cazort, Bella Pittura. The Art of the Gandolfi, exhib. cat., Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, 1993, no. 65.

拍品专文

Related to the head of Christ in Gandolfi's altarpiece of The Calling of Saint James and Saint John painted in 1757 for the parish church of Piumazzo, near Modena (P. Bagni, I Gandolfi, affreschi, dipinti, bozzetti, disegni, Bologna, 1992, no. 204). This picture is Gaetano's earliest documented work. A study of similar format for the head of Saint James is in a private collection in Bologna (P. Bagni, op. cit., no. 205).