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Gaetano Gandolfi (Matteo della Decima, near Bologna 1734-1802 Bologna)
Lot 217 THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (LOTS 221, 215 & 217)

Gaetano Gandolfi (Matteo della Decima, near Bologna 1734-1802 Bologna)

An Allegory of the Sacrament of Baptism - a bozzetto

Closed3 July 2013

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GBP 25,000

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Gaetano Gandolfi (Matteo della Decima, near Bologna 1734-1802 Bologna)
An Allegory of the Sacrament of Baptism - a bozzetto
oil on canvas
11¾ x 9 1/8 in. (29.9 x 23.1 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 16 May 1996, lot 259 ($17,250).

Specialist note

Dated to the 1780s by Prisco Bagni (op. cit.), and to the early 1790s by Donatella Biagi Maino (op. cit.), this bozzetto has not yet been identified with a finished painting by the artist.