Studies of the heads of five young women, a young girl, a boy and a bearded man

Details

Gaetano Gandolfi (San Matteo della Decima 1734-1802 Bologna)
Studies of the heads of five young women, a young girl, a boy and a bearded man
pen and brown ink
8 x 11 3/8 in. (20.2 x 28.8 cm)

Provenance

with Kurt Meissner, Zurich, from whom acquired by
Mr Schellenbaum, Zurich (according to the Landolt typescript catalogue).
Anonymous sale; Koller Auktionen, Zurich, 16 May 1962, lot 56, where acquired by
Dr Walter Hugelshofer, Zurich, by whom presented to Robert Landolt.

Exhibited

Zurich, Graphische Sammlung ETH, Zwiegespräch mit Zeichnungen. Werke des 15. bis 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Sammlung Robert Landolt, 2013-2014, no. 23, ill. (catalogue entry by D. Biagi Maino).

Engraved

Etched in reverse by Luigi Tadolini (1758-1823), plate 9 in the album of twenty prints entitled ‘Raccolta di teste pittoriche inventate e disegnate a penna da Sig. G. Gandolfi Accademico Clementino ed incise in rame da Luigi Tadolini’

Special notice

These lots have been imported from outside the EU or, if the UK has withdrawn from the EU without an agreed transition deal, from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.

Brought to you by

Stijn Alsteens

salsteens@christies.com +33 1 40 76 83 59

Lot Essay

Many of Gandolfi’s sheets of head studies, baptized ‘capricci di teste’ by Donatella Biagi (‘Gaetano Gandolfi’s Capricci of Heads: Drawings and Engravings’, The Burlington Magazine, CXXXVI, 1994, pp. 375-380), were made into prints by the Bolognese etcher Luigi Tadolini (1758-1823). This is also the case with the present drawing, included as plate 9 in Tadolini’s Raccolta di teste pittoriche inventate e disegnate a penna dal Sig.G. Gandolfi, published around 1785 (Fig. 1).

Fig. 1. Luigi Tadolini, from Raccolta di teste pittoriche inventate e disegnate a penna da Sig. G. Gandolfi, etching.

More from Italian Drawings From The Robert Landolt Collection

View All