Head of a Boy, probably between 1770 and 1780

  • Gaetano Gandolfi, Italian, 1734-1802

Oil on wood panel

  • Unframed: 11 5/16 × 8 11/16 inches (28.7 × 22.1 cm)
  • 17 × 14 inches (43.2 × 35.6 cm)

Gift of Donald F. Emanuel

2003.90

Department

European Painting

after 1830, collection of Thomas J. Bryan (New York, USA)

1867, donated to The New-York Historical Society (New York, New York, USA)

October 9, 1980, sold by (Sotheby's, New York, New York, USA)

purchased by a Florence art dealer (Florence, Italy)

May 1987, purchased by Donald F. Emanuel (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

2003-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

White, Richard Grant. Companion to the Bryan Gallery of Christian Art. New York, 1853, p. 8, no. 201. [as "Small Portrait" by Pompeo Battoni] Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of the New York Historical Society. New York, 1915, p. 87, no. B-250. [as by Pompeo Batoni] Fredericksen, Burton and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, 1972, pp. 179, 528, 610. [as by Pietro Antonio Rotari] Old Master Paintings: From the Collection of Thomas J. Bryan, The Property of the New-York Historical Society. Sales cat., Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, October 9, 1980, no. 74 (ill.). "New Acquisitions," Bulletin of the DIA 78, no. 3/4 (2004): pp. 20–29, p. 24. Bissell, R. Ward, Andria Derstine and Dwight Miller. Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2005, p. 11; pp. 82–83, no. 27 (ill.). Derstine, Andria. "The Detroit Institute of Arts and Italian Baroque Painting." In Buying Baroque: Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America, ed. Edgar Peters Bowron. University Park, 2017, p. 97.

attributed to Gaetano Gandolfi, Head of a Boy, probably between 1770 and 1780, oil on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Donald F. Emanuel, 2003.90.