From Taddeo to Tiepolo: The Dr. John O’Brien Collection of Old Master Drawings
From Taddeo to Tiepolo: The Dr. John O’Brien Collection of Old Master Drawings
Filippo Pedrini
The Apotheosis of Hercules
Auction Closed
January 27, 09:35 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Filippo Pedrini
Bologna 1758 - 1844
The Apotheosis of Hercules
Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk, within partial brown ink framing lines;
bears old attribution in brown ink, upper right: Ubaldo Gandolfi
239 by 212 mm; 9 3/8 by 8 3/8 in
sale, London, Christie's, 20 April 1993, lot 170;
with Nissman, Abromson Ltd., Brookline, MA,
where acquired, 2000
The present sheet, previously attributed to Ubaldo Gandolfi, was ascribed to Filippo Pedrini by Mary Cazort-Taylor, who pointed out that it is inspired by Ubaldo's fresco on the ceiling of the Casa Grande of the Palazzo Malvezzi, Bologna.1
1. D. Biagi Maino, Ubaldo Gandolfi, Turin 1990, pl. 240