The Apotheosis of San Vitale, 1781

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Medium

pen and brown ink and black chalk with brown wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Overall: 26.5 x 22.4 cm (10 7/16 x 8 13/16 in.)
support: 35 x 30.9 cm (13 3/4 x 12 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1981.28.1

Artists / Makers

Ubaldo Gandolfi (artist) Bolognese, 1728 - 1781

Image Use

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Inscription

in later hand, across center verso: Ubaldo Gandolfi / Pensiero per la cupola de San Vitale di Ravenna; across bottom verso: Unico documento autentitico / e originale; lower right verso: chi esa / distrutta dalle / bombe austriachi / [1914 1917?]

Provenance

A. Morassi(Lugt Supp.143a), C or G in diamond(undescr)

Associated Names

Bick, Malcolm W., Dr.

Exhibition History

1970: Coley 1970, no. 23.

1971: Robinson/Paoletti 1971, no. 44.

1985: Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1985-1986.

1993: Bella Pittura: The Art of the Gandolfi, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, 1993, no. 28.