Head of a Boy

probably between 1770 and 1780

Attributed to Gaetano Gandolfi Italian, 1734-1802

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About the Artwork

Title Head of a Boy

Artwork Date probably between 1770 and 1780

Artist Attributed to Gaetano Gandolfi

Life Dates 1734-1802

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on wood panel

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

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Donald F. Emanuel

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 2003.90

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Provenance

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)

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Published References

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.

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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.