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Gaetano Gandolfi<br />
Bologne 1732 – 1802<br />
Etu<strong>de</strong> pour une sculpture <strong>de</strong> Neptune<br />
Study for a Sculpture of Neptune<br />
Sanguine. Inscrit Gaetano Gandolfi au verso.<br />
Red chalk. Inscribed Gaetano Gandolfi on the verso.<br />
247 x 174 mm (9 ½ x 6 ½ in.)<br />
Lors <strong>de</strong> sa formation à l’Acca<strong>de</strong>mia Clementina <strong>de</strong> Bologne, Gaetano Gandofi étudia<br />
le <strong>de</strong>ssin, mais aussi la sculpture. Cette formation lui servit lors <strong>de</strong> la conception <strong>de</strong><br />
<strong>de</strong>́cors <strong>de</strong> palais, dans lesquels il insérait volontiers <strong>de</strong>s sculptures en trompe-l’œil,<br />
parfois dans <strong>de</strong>s niches, parfois vues da sotto in su, pour orner et rythmer les murs<br />
<strong>de</strong>s galeries ou <strong>de</strong>s grands salons. C’est le cas, par exemple, au Palazzo Malvasia,<br />
au Palazzo Odorico ou encore au Palazzo Gnudi Scagliarini. Mais on peut aussi<br />
signaler que Gaetano s’est essayé à la sculpture au <strong>de</strong>́but <strong>de</strong> sa carrière, dans les<br />
années 1730. Donatella Biagi Maino a en effet pu reconstituer un groupe <strong>de</strong> quelques<br />
terres cuites qui illustre cette partie marginale <strong>de</strong> sa production, à laquelle pourrait se<br />
rapporter notre <strong>de</strong>ssin (Donatella Biagi Maino, Ubaldo and Gaetano Gandolfi, opera<br />
scelte, Cento 2002, fig. 1 et 2 ; Sotheby’s, 22 juin 1978, lot 406).<br />
During his training at the Bolognese Acca<strong>de</strong>mia Clementina, not only did Gaetano<br />
Gandolfi study drawing, but also sculpture, which helped him in his <strong>de</strong>signs for palace<br />
<strong>de</strong>corations in which he liked to draw sculptures in trompe-l’oeil, sometimes in niches or<br />
da sotto in su. They <strong>de</strong>corated and gave rhythm to the walls of galleries or grand halls,<br />
as is the case, for example, with Palazzo Malvasia, Palazzo Odorico, or else Palazzo<br />
Gnudi Scagliarini. It should also be recalled that Gaetano tried his hand at sculpture<br />
early in his career, in the 1730s. Donatella Biagi Maino reconstructed a group of<br />
terra-cottas illustrating this marginal part of his production, to which our drawing can<br />
well be connected (Donatella Biagi Maino, Ubaldo and Gaetano Gandolfi, opera<br />
scelte, Cento 2002, fig. 1 et 2; Sotheby’s, 22 June 1978, lot 406).<br />
€ 3 800<br />
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<strong>Catalogue</strong> <strong>de</strong> Noël
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