Venus Ordering Armor for Aeneas at Vulcan's Forge

ca. between 1770 and 1775

Gaetano Gandolfi Italian, 1734-1802

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Title Venus Ordering Armor for Aeneas at Vulcan's Forge

Artwork Date ca. between 1770 and 1775

Artist 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 canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 75 3/8 × 56 1/8 inches (191.5 × 142.5 cm) Framed: 82 7/8 × 63 3/8 × 3 3/8 inches (210.5 × 161 × 8.6 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Allan Shelden III

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. 74.2

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Provenance

Comte Raymond de Castellane (France);
March 5–9, 1934, presented at auction (J.J. Terris, Palais des Fêtes et des Expositions, Nice France), "Tableaux Anciens…de Monsieur le Comte R. de Castellane," lot 49;
October 29, 1937, presented at auction, (Hôtel Drouot), "Objets d’Art et d’Ambeublement…," lot 10;
1973, (Heim Gallery, London, England);
1973, Mr. & Mrs. Allan Shelden III (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1974–present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Composant le Mobilier et les Collections de Monsieur le Comte R. de Castellane. Sales cat., J.-J. Terris. Nice, France, March 5–9, 1934, p. 10, no. 49 (ill.).

Objets d'Art et d'Ameublement. Sales cat., Hôtel Drouot. Paris, October 29, 1937, p. 4, no. 10.

Bénézit, Emmanuel. "Gaetano Gandolfi." In Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, vol. 4. Paris, 1966, p. 149; 1976, ed., vol. 4, p. 604.

Paintings & Sculptures of the Italian Baroque. Exh. cat., Heim Gallery Ltd. London, 1973, no. 22 (ill.).

"Advertisement, Heim Summer Exhibition 1973: Paintings and Sculptures of the Italian Baroque." The Connoisseur 183, no. 737 (July 1973): p. 29 (ill.).

Winokur, Ronald L. "Curatorial and Museum Department Reports: Department of European Art." Bulletin of the DIA 53, no. 2 (1974): p. 55 (ill.).

Roli, Renato. Pittura Bolognese 1650–1800: Dal Cignani ai Gandolfi. Bologna, 1977, pp. 128, 264, (pl. 278a).

Trafalgar Galleries at the Royal Academy IV. Exh. cat., Trafalgar Galleries. London, 1985, p. 52 (ill.).

Masterpieces from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., The Bunkamura Museum of Art et al. Tokyo, 1989, pp. 76, 166–167, no. 44 (ill.); p. 214, no. 44 (ill.).

Maino, Donatella Biagi. "La pittura del Settecento a Parma e a Piacenza." In La Pittura in Italia: Il Setteceno, vol. 1, ed. Giuliano Briganti. Milan, 1990, p. 283.

Bagni, Prisco. I Gandolfi: Affreschi Dipinti Bozzetti Disegni. Bologna, 1992, p. 235, no. 216 (ill.).

Cazort, Mimi. Bella Pittura: The Art of the Gandolfi. Exh. Cat, National Gallery of Canada. Ottawa, 1993, p. 16; p. 67, no. 44 (ill.).

Maino, Donatella Biagi. Gaetano Gandolfi. Turin, 1995, no. 50, (pl. 56); no. 49, (pls. 53-55).

Bissell, R. Ward, A. Derstine, and Dwight Miller. Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2005, pp. 10, 78–81, no. 26 (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.

Marandel, J. Patrice. "Dealing and Scholarship: The Heim Gallery, London 1966–1995." In Buying Baroque: Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America, ed. Edgar Peters Bowron. University Park, 2017, p. 85.

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Gaetano Gandolfi, Venus Ordering Armor for Aeneas at Vulcan's Forge, ca. between 1770 and 1775, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Allan Shelden III, 74.2.