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Lot 345
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GAETANO GANDOLFI | Studies of hands

Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 GBP
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Description

  • Gaetano Gandolfi
  • Studies of hands
  • Red chalk within black chalk framing lines;bears two inscriptions in pen and ink, verso: del inventorato Gandolfi and M. Gandolfi
  • 337 by 255 mm

Provenance

Private Collection, Venice;
Private Collection, Florence

Catalogue Note

This attractive and accomplished sheet is typical of Gaetano Gandolfi's graphic style.  These types of studies must have been made as preparatory exercises for his paintings, although no direct connection here can be made.  Other similar sheets are housed in the Fondazione Giorgio Cini and another comparable drawing was sold in these Rooms in 2011.1 1. I Gandolfi: Ubaldo, Gaetano, Mauro Disegni e Dipinti, exhib. cat., Venice, Isola di S. Giorgio Maggiore; Bologna, Palazzo Pepoli Campogrande, 1987, nos. 47, 48 and 51 and 52, reproduced figs, 47, 48, 51 and 52 and sale, London, Sotheby's, 7 July 2011, lot 102