Bust of a Saint

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

    sheet: 13.5 × 11.8 cm (5 5/16 × 4 5/8 in.)
    plate: 10.9 × 9.6 cm (4 5/16 × 3 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1974.120.5

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    De Vesme 1906, no. 9


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Karl Jacob Mayer, Darmstadt (Lugt 5100); (David Tunick, New York); purchased 1974 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

recto: none; verso: at lower center, in graphite: Gandolfi V9; at lower left, in graphite: B-28.107 DTMACH; at lower right, in graphite: 67

Markings

Karl Jacob Mayer (Lugt 5100)

Wikidata ID

Q65568559


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