Gaetano GANDOLFI
Pan with Young Satyrs, a Putto and a Nymph
Medium Pen and brown ink and brown wash, over an underdrawing in black chalk
Dimension 15.9 x 12.1 cm (6¹/₄ x 4³/₄ inches)
A close stylistic comparison may be made with such drawings of mythological subjects by Gandolfi as two studies for a painting of The Triumph of Venus - one in a French private collection and the other in the Princeton University Art Museum in New Jersey - or a Judgement of Paris in a private collection.
Medium: Pen and brown ink and brown wash, over an underdrawing in black chalk
Signature: Inscribed Drawn by Gaetano Gandolfi Bolognese painter on the former mount.
Dimension: 15.9 x 12.1 cm (6¹/₄ x 4³/₄ inches)
Provenance: F[rederic?] Maclellan Adami, Esq.
His sale, London, Christie’s, 29 June 1971, lot 124
Private collection
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby’s, 7 July 1999, lot 49
P. & D. Colnaghi, London, in 2000
James Freeman, Kyoto
Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London, in 2007
Private collection, New York.
Literature: Donatella Biagi Maino, Gaetano Gandolfi, Turin, 1995, p.57, fig.XIX, p.75.
Exhibition: New York and London, Colnaghi, Master Drawings, 2000, no.28.
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