Saints Peter and Paul

1785

Gaetano Gandolfi

Artist, Bolognese, 1734 - 1802

Ludovico Inig

Printer, Italian, active late 18th century

Guido Reni

Artist After, Bolognese, 1575 - 1642

Gaetano Gandolfi, after Guido Reni

Attributed to

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 45.9 × 30.2 cm (18 1/16 × 11 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 46.6 × 30.2 cm (18 3/8 × 11 7/8 in.) trimmed within platemark
    mount: 47.5 × 32 cm (18 11/16 × 12 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2020.46.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    De Vesme, 1906: no. 8, State undesc. iv/iv

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Enrico Cortona, Milan); purchased 2020 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: no. 8, undesc. iv/iv

Inscriptions

lower center in plate: SS. PETRVS, ET PAULVS / Ex insigni Tabula Guidonis Reni, / que asservatur in Pinacotheca Sampieri / Bonomie; lower left in plate: Impressum per Ludovicum Inig; lower right in plate: C. Gandolfi del. et incid 1785; by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: D.V. No.8 / Stato iii/3; FORSE [not deciphered] BIANCHI / [not deciphered] / LUDOVICO SINI(?)

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