Saint Margaret of Cortona, Saint James of the March, and Saint Didacus
Gaetano Gandolfi
1734–1802
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk
Dimensions
11 5/8 x 7 3/8in. (29.5 x 18.7cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880
Accession Number
80.3.513
Tags
CrossSaints
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 ...