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

We are grateful to Dottoressa Donatella Biagi-Maino for suggesting the attribution on the basis of a photograph (written correspondence, 5 September 2016). This early work recalls Titianesque models and Dottoressa Biagi-Maino accordingly dates the present canvas, which she calls 'veramente sqisito' [truly exquisite], to shortly after Gandolfi's trip to Venice in 1760.