Joshua
1779
Medium
Black chalk (stumped), brush and gray wash, highlighted with white chalk, on beige paper
Dimensions
16-5/8 x 12-7/16 in. (42.3 x 31.6 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Jacob Bean, in memory of Donald P. Gurney, 1989
Accession Number
1989.108.2
Tags
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 ...