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Odysseus receiving a bag of winds from Aeolus. On the back a rough draft of a letter dated 12 November 1766
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| Title | Odysseus receiving a bag of winds from Aeolus
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| Materials and techniques | Pen and ink and wash |
| Brief description | GANDOLFI, GAETANO. Odysseus receiving a bag of winds from Aeolus. Pen and ink and wash. 1760s. |
| Physical description | Odysseus receiving a bag of winds from Aeolus. On the back a rough draft of a letter dated 12 November 1766 |
| Dimensions | - Height: 280mm
- Width: 198mm
Half Imperial portrait mount |
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| Production type | Unique |
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| Bibliographic references | - Ward-Jackson, Peter, Italian Drawings Volume II. 17th-18th century, London, 1979, p.142-143, illus.
The following is the full text of the entry:
GANDOLFI, GAETANO
(1734-1802)
1014
Odysseus receiving a bag of winds from Aeolus
On the back a rough draft of a letter dated 12 November 1766
Pen and ink and wash; within an oval border
10 x 7 3/8 (254 x 187) D.2153A-1885
PROVENANCE Bought 1885
The unsigned draft of a letter on the back states that the writer had called upon Vostra Eccellenza in Bologna, but not finding him there was writing to inform him that the picture representing la Venuta dello spirito santo sopra degli Apostoli was ready and could be transported to its destination within two weeks. He asks that the money owing to him for the commission should be paid to him through ‘Quel Signor di Rimino’. The drawing, at one time ascribed to Giovanni Liss, was attributed to Gandolfi by Dr. Oberhuber. The style is certainly very like his, and so is the hand-writing (compare the specimen of his handwriting in the Biblioteca Comunale in the Archiginnasio at Bologna: MS B 95 entitled Gaetano Gandolfi. Notizie delle opera scritte di sua propria mano). As Mr Pouncey has pointed out, the composition is inspired by Tibaldi’s painting of the same theme on a ceiling in the Palazzo Poggi, Bologna. There appears to be no documentary record of a picture of the Pentecost by Gaetano (or Ubaldo) Gandolfi. It is not in the fragmentary MS just quoted, but might possibly be found in one of the Oretti MSS in the same library, though Signore Bianchi in her book on the Gandolfi brothers used these sources to compile her list of lost works. It is a question whether ‘Quel Signor di Rimino’ who was to pay the artist his fee is thus referred to by his surname or whether he was a gentleman of Rimini. In the latter case, the picture was presumably painted (in 1766) for a church at Rimini.
- p. 136
Myles Campbell and William Derham. Making majesty. The throne room at Dublin Castle, a cultural history. Blackrock Co. Dublin : Irish Academic Press 2017. ISBN: 9781911024736
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