The Birth of Venus
Gaetano Gandolfi
late 1770s
Medium
red chalk heightened with white on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 32.6 × 38.2 cm (12 13/16 × 15 1/16 in.) mount: 40.8 × 47.6 cm (16 1/16 × 18 3/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of David H. McDonnell
Accession Number
2016.131.2
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 ...