The Judgement of Paris

Details

Gaetano Gandolfi (San Matteo della Decima 1734-1802 Bologna)
The Judgement of Paris
inscribed and dated 'Sig? Avocatto Goldoni 1786'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, watermark fleur-de-lys in a shield
8 1/8 x 11¾ in. (20.8 x 29.8 cm.)

Provenance

Francesco Dubini (1848-1932) (L. 987a).

Exhibited

D. Biagi Maino, Gaetano Gandolfi, Turin, 1995, fig. XXXVIII, p. 116, note 108 and under no. 181.

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Lot Essay

Although not a direct study, this sheet is related in subject to an oil painting and a bozzetto, with a different composition, which are recorded in the collection of Molinari Pradelli, Marano di Castenaso, Bologna (Biagi Maino, op. cit., nos. 180 and 181, figs. 205 and 206).

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