Sunday, April 24, 2016

Drawings by the Gandolfi, 18th century

Gaetano Gandolfi
Angels in clouds
18th century
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Eighteenth-century drawings by the Bolognese brothers Gaetano Gandolfi (1734-1802) and Ubaldo Gandolfi (1728-1781) and by Gaetano's son, Mauro Gandolfi (1764-1834). Like the Tiepolo dynasy in Venice, the Gandolfi were especially comfortable with figures disporting themselves high overhead in the sky.

Ubaldo Gandolfi
Landscape with nudes
18th century
Prado

Gaetano Gandolfi
Seated prophet
18th century
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ubaldo Gandolfi
Three putti around an oval
18th century
Prado

Gaetano Gandolfi
Académie
18th century
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Ubaldo Gandolfi
Académie
18th century
Prado

Gaetano Gandolfi
Académie
18th century
Prado

Ubaldo Gandolfi
Académie
18th century
Prado

Mauro Gandolfi
Return of the Prodigal Son
18th century
Prado

Ubaldo Gandolfi
St Charles Borromeo burying the dead during the plague at Milan
18th century
Prado

Ubaldo Gandolfi
Figure study from below
18th century
Prado

Ubaldo Gandolfi
The three holy women at the empty tomb, with an angel
18th century
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Ubaldo Gandolfi
Sketches of old men and a child
18th century
Morgan Library, New York

Ubaldo Gandolfi
Reclining women in clouds
18th century
Morgan Library, New York