Live Auction 18953Italian Drawings From The Robert Landolt Collection
Gaetano Gandolfi (San Matteo della Decima 1734-1802 Bologna)
Lot 103

Gaetano Gandolfi (San Matteo della Decima 1734-1802 Bologna)

Studies of the heads of five young women, a young girl, a boy and a bearded man

Closed8 December 2020

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Gaetano Gandolfi (San Matteo della Decima 1734-1802 Bologna)
Studies of the heads of five young women, a young girl, a boy and a bearded man
pen and brown ink
8 x 11 3/8 in. (20.2 x 28.8 cm)

with Kurt Meissner, Zurich, from whom acquired by
Mr Schellenbaum, Zurich (according to the Landolt typescript catalogue).
Anonymous sale; Koller Auktionen, Zurich, 16 May 1962, lot 56, where acquired by
Dr Walter Hugelshofer, Zurich, by whom presented to Robert Landolt.

Specialist note


Many of Gandolfi’s sheets of head studies, baptized ‘capricci di teste’ by Donatella Biagi (‘Gaetano Gandolfi’s Capricci of Heads: Drawings and Engravings’, The Burlington Magazine, CXXXVI, 1994, pp. 375-380), were made into prints by the Bolognese etcher Luigi Tadolini (1758-1823). This is also the case with the present drawing, included as plate 9 in Tadolini’s Raccolta di teste pittoriche inventate e disegnate a penna dal Sig.G. Gandolfi, published around 1785 (Fig. 1).

Fig. 1. Luigi Tadolini, from Raccolta di teste pittoriche inventate e disegnate a penna da Sig. G. Gandolfi, etching.