Studies of Female Nudes
1785/1790
Artist, Bolognese, 1734 - 1802
Artwork overview
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Medium
oiled charcoal and stumping, heightened with white gouache on gray-brown laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 43 x 31.2 cm (16 15/16 x 12 5/16 in.)
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Accession
2007.111.91
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Jacques Petithory, Paris; Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1979
Zeichnungen Italienischer Meister aus den Sammlungen Schloos Fachsenfeld, Stiftung Ratjen Vaduz, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Kunstmuseum Lucerne, 1979, no. 37.
1995
Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz, Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz, 1995, no. 12.
2011
Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011, no. 61.
Bibliography
1992
Bagni, Prisco. I Gandolfi: Affreschi, dipinti, bozzetti, disegni. Bologna(?), 1992: 364, no. 342.
1993
Cazort, Mimi. Bella Pittura: The Art of the Gandolfi. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, and The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock. Ottawa, 1993: 66, under no. 43.
1995
Biagi Maino, Donatella. Gaetano Gandolfi. Torino, 1995: fig. xxxvi.
2002
Turner, Nicholas. "La fusione dei media: la simbiosi tra disegno e pittura nell'opera dei Gandolfi." In Gaetano e Ubaldo Gandolfi: opere scelte. Exh. cat. Auditorium di San Lorenzo, Cento. Torino, 2002: 47, 96 (under no. 32), fig. 31.
2008
Benati, Daniele, ed. Il fascino dell'arte emiliana: dipinti e disegni dal XVI al XIX secolo. Exh. cat. Fondantico arte e antiquariato, Bologna. 2008: 112, 113 (under nos. 28, 29; entry by Donatello Biagi Maino).
Sotheby's, New York, Important Old Master Paintings and Sculpture. 24 January 2008: 324, fig. 1 (under no. 112).
2010
Christie's, New York, Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings & Watercolors, Part I. 27 January 2010: 80, under no. 29.
Christie's, London, Old Master and 19th Century Paintings, Drawings & Watercolours Day. 7 July 2010: under no. 325.
Inscriptions
verso, upper left, black chalk: G. Gandolfi; lower center, graphite: No 1
Watermarks
anchor in a circle surmounted by a six-pointed star and the letter P below [similar to Heawood 8]
Wikidata ID
Q64571004