No.40 Ubaldo Gandolfi 1.
Bagni, op.cit., pp.628-629, no.602. The Palazzo Malvasia is now part of the University of Bologna.
2.
Inv. 389; Biagi Maino, op.cit., p.34, fig.iii; Bologna, San Giorgio in Poggiale, op.cit., pp.206-207, no.74. The drawing measures 176 x 240 mm.
3.
Bagni, op.cit., p.629, no.603; Florence, Mattia & Maria Novella Romano, op.cit., no.10. The drawing measures 179 x 238 mm.
No.41 Ubaldo Gandolfi 1.
A native of the town of Budrio, just outside Bologna, the cellist and composer Antonio Certani (1879-1952) assembled a fine and varied collection of drawings, mainly of the 17th and 18th century Bolognese and Emilian schools, which included a large number of drawings by each of the Gandolfis. Certani lent almost 150 drawings by 46 artists to the Mostra di Settecento Bolognese, a major exhibition of Emilian art held in Bologna in 1935, for which this drawing was chosen as the cover of the catalogue. The bulk of the Certani collection of drawings, numbering around five thousand sheets, was eventually acquired by Count Vittorio Cini in 1963, and is now in the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice.
2.
Prisco Bagni, I Gandolfi: Affreschi dipinti bozzetti disegni, Cittadella, 1992, pp.602-603, nos.573-574, respectively.
3.
Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby’s, 29 January 1997, lot 19.
4.
Inv. F.D. 1.309; Manuela B. Mena Marqués, Museo del Prado. Catálogo de Dibujos VII: Dibujos Italianos del Siglo XVIII y del Siglo XIX, Madrid, 1990, p.75, no.F.D. 1.309, illustrated p.291, fig.128.
5.
Inv. F.D. 294; Ibid,, p.76, no.F.D. 294, illustrated p.293, fig.131.
6.
Inv. 7841; Peter Ward-Jackson, Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogues: Italian Drawings II, 17th-18th century, London, 1980, pp.144-145, no.1018 (as Gaetano Gandolfi).
No.42 Gaetano Gandolfi 1.
James Byam Shaw, The Italian Drawings of the Frits Lugt Collection, Paris, 1983, Vol.I, pp.373-374, under no.379.
2.
Donatella Biagi Maino, ‘Gaetano Gandolfi’s ‘capricci’ of heads: drawings and engeavings’, The Burlington Magazine, June 1994, p.378.
3.
Alexandre de Vesme, Le peintre-graveur italien, Milan, 1906, p.151, no.19 (not illustrated). The etching measures 144 x 100 mm.
4.
Biagi Maino et al., op.cit., 1996, illustrated p.114; Gozzi, op.cit., unpaginated no.10/1. The sheet of seven etchings is an unusual example of a sheet of several printed etchings remaining intact, and not having been cut up into its component etchings.
5.
‘Il disegno, sia per questo carattere preparatorio ma sopratutto per la qualità superba di stesura e invenzione che condivide con il compagno, e’ da ritenere importante acquisizione al catalogo della grafica del Gandolfi.’; Biagi Maino et al., op.cit., 1996, p.112.
6.
‘uno straordinario disegno a penna’; Gozzi, op.cit., unpaginated, under no.10.
7.
Anonymous sale, London, Christie’s, 26 November 1973, lot 274A (bt. Agnew for 550 gns.); London, Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd., Master Drawings and Prints, 1974, no.36; Hamburg, Dr. Moeller & Cie., op.cit., no.1; Adriano Cera, ed., Disegni, acquarelli, tempere di artisti italiani dal 1770 ca. al 1830 ca., Bologna, 2002, Vol.II, unpaginated, Mauro Gandolfi no.17 (as Mauro Gandolfi). The drawing measures 236 x 136 mm..
8.
Prisco Bagni, I Gandolfi: Affreschi dipinti bozzetti disegni, Cittadella, 1992, p.532, no.501; Donatella Biagi Maino, Gaetano Gandolfi, Turin, 1995, p.354, no.40, fig.40.
9.
Bagni, ibid., p.533, no.502; Biagi Maino, ibid., p.346, no.10, fig.11.
10. Biagi Maino et al., op.cit., 1996, illustrated p.115.
No.43 Giovanni David 1.
Federico Alizeri, Notizie dei professori del disegno in Liguria, Genoa, 1864, Vol.I, p.371.
2.
Two albums containing around 180 drawings by the artist, executed during a trip to France, Belgium and England between September 1785 and October 1786, were at one time in the collection of the 19th century Genoese sculptor Santo Varni and are today in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle; A. P. Oppé, English Drawings: Stuart and Georgian Periods in the Collection of His Majesty the King at Windsor Castle, London, 1950, p.40, no.173, figs.16 and 17.