From Taddeo to Tiepolo: The Dr. John O’Brien Collection of Old Master Drawings

Filippo Pedrini

The Apotheosis of Hercules

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January 27, 09:35 PM GMT

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3,000 - 4,000 USD

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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

Abraded collector's mark, lower left;
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