Alexander the Great Offering His Concubine Campaspe to the Painter Apelles
Gaetano Gandolfi
1793–97
Medium
Black chalk (stumped), highlighted with white, on brownish paper
Dimensions
12-1/16 x 16-7/8 in. (30.6 x 42.9 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1962
Accession Number
62.132.3
Tags
Alexander The GreatMenWomen
About the Artist
Gaetano Gandolfi · 1734–1802
Gaetano Gandolfi (1734–1802) was an Italian painter and draughtsman who, together with his older brother Ubaldo Gandolfi, represented the finest flowering of the Bolognese school during the eighteenth century. Born in San Matteo della Decima, he trained in Bologna under Felice Torelli and Ercole Lelli before entering the Accademia Clementina, the leading artistic institution in the city, where he ...