Head of a Bishop
Gaetano Gandolfi
ca. 1770
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
18 3/8 x 14 7/8 in. (46.7 x 37.8 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Charles and Jessie Price and Stephen Mazoh Gifts, 2010
Accession Number
2010.117
Tags
BishopsMen
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 ...