The Infant Bacchus Astride a Wine Barrel

c. 1775

Gaetano Gandolfi

Artist, Bolognese, 1734 - 1802

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 6.6 x 4.1 cm (2 5/8 x 1 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 9.1 x 6.4 cm (3 9/16 x 2 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2002.8.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    De Vesme 1906, no. 13

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Karl Jacob Mayer, Darmstadt (Lugt 5100); (Hill-Stone Inc., New York); purchased 2001 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1906

  • Vesme, Alexandre de (Baudi di Vesme, Alessandro). Le peintre-graveur italien; ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de Bartsch. Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1906.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: 99139; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: GANDOLFI

Markings

Karl Jacob Mayer (Lugt 5100)

Wikidata ID

Q76340686

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