Gaetano Gandolfi

Orpheus and Eurydice fleeing Hades

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January 26, 03:17 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Baroque: Masterpieces from the Fisch Davidson Collection

Gaetano Gandolfi

San Matteo della Decima near Bologna 1734 - 1802 Bologna

Orpheus and Eurydice fleeing Hades

oil on canvas

canvas: 16⅞ by 11⅛ in.; 42.9 by 28.3 cm.

framed: 20½ by 15⅛ in.; 52.1 by 38.4 cm.

For updated provenance, please see the online catalogue.

With Galleria Zampini, Rome;

With Galleria Giovanni Pratesi, Florence, 1989;

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 4 July 1990, lot 17;

With Galerie Alain Moatti, Paris, by 1993;

From whom acquired by the present collectors, 1994.

P. Bagni, I Gandolfi: Affreschi, Dipinti, Bozzetti, Disegni, Bologna 1992, pp. 444-446, 747, cat. no. 422, reproduced in color p. 446;
E. Moatti, Tableaux anciens, exhibition catalogue, Paris 1992, unpaginated, cat. no. 12, reproduced in color;
M. Cazort, in Bella Pittura: The Art of the Gandolfi, exhibition catalogue, Ottawa 1993, p. 77, cat. no. 56, reproduced;
D. Biagi Maino, Gaetano Gandolfi, Turin 1995, pp. 410, 413, under cat. nos. 251, 263 (as Mauro Gandolfi).

Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada; Little Rock, Arkansas Arts Center, Bella Pittura: The Art of the Gandolfi, 18 June - 6 September 1993, no. 56.