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Lot Essay
This is a study, with differences, for the picture, variously dated 1773 and 1776, in the Museo di San Domenico, Bologna (Fig. 1; see P. Bagni, I Gandolfi. Affreschi, dipinti, bozzetti, disegni, Padua, 1992, no. 139, ill.). The painting was commissioned by the marchese Muzio Spada Bonaccorsi (1716-1800) for the church of San Domenico, Bologna, after recovering from a dangerous illness. Another study, closer to the picture and probably the final design for it, is in the Louvre (inv. 12580; ibid., no. 142, ill.).
The inscription on the verso is by the painter and collector Lamberto Cristiano Gori. As the inscription states, Gori bought a large part of Ignazio Enrico Hugford's collection. A drawing by Giovanni Fratellini, showing a portrait of Hugford and bearing an extensive inscription by Gori, is in the British Museum (inv. 1972,0513.13; see F. Grisolia, 'Disegni oltremontani nella collezione di Ignazio Enrico Hugford', Proporzioni. Annali della Fondazione Roberto Longhi, VII-VIII, 2006-2007, fig. 136).
Fig. 1. Ubaldo Gandolfi, Saints Dominic and Vincent Ferrer receiving the Rosary from the Virgin, oil on canvas, Museo di San Domenico, Bologna.
The inscription on the verso is by the painter and collector Lamberto Cristiano Gori. As the inscription states, Gori bought a large part of Ignazio Enrico Hugford's collection. A drawing by Giovanni Fratellini, showing a portrait of Hugford and bearing an extensive inscription by Gori, is in the British Museum (inv. 1972,0513.13; see F. Grisolia, 'Disegni oltremontani nella collezione di Ignazio Enrico Hugford', Proporzioni. Annali della Fondazione Roberto Longhi, VII-VIII, 2006-2007, fig. 136).
Fig. 1. Ubaldo Gandolfi, Saints Dominic and Vincent Ferrer receiving the Rosary from the Virgin, oil on canvas, Museo di San Domenico, Bologna.