The Birth of Venus, late 1770s

Not on View

Medium

red chalk heightened with white on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 32.6 × 38.2 cm (12 13/16 × 15 1/16 in.)
mount: 40.8 × 47.6 cm (16 1/16 × 18 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of David H. McDonnell

Accession Number

2016.131.2

Artists / Makers

Gaetano Gandolfi (artist) Bolognese, 1734 - 1802

Image Use

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Inscription

fragments of inscriptions on verso, by later hand, in pen and ink, lower right: Mauro Gandolfi, n. 1790; upper right: No. 22

Provenance

French private collection [by 1993]; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 5 July 2006, no. 72);(sale, Sotheby's London, 8 July 2015, no. 110); David H. McDonnell, Arlington, VA; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

McDonnell, David H.

Exhibition History

1993: Bella Pittura: The Art of the Gandolfi, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 2006, 90, no. 76 (Mimi Cazort).

Bibliography

1995: Biagi Maino, Donatella. Gaetano Gandolfi. Turin, 1995: 376, under no. 121.

2002: Biagi Maino, D. Gaetano e Ubaldo Gandolfi, Opere scelte. Exh. cat. Cento, Auditorium di San Lorenzo, 2002: under no. 32.