Ubaldo GANDOLFI (San Matteo della Decima 1728... Lot 18

Ubaldo GANDOLFI (San Matteo della Decima 1728 - Ravenna 1781) The Visitation Canvas (Old restorations) 131 x 98 cm ATTENTION: An authorization or a bank deposit of 10% will be necessary in order to bid live on this lot. Without this authorization we reserve the right to refuse live bidding. ATTENTION *Judicial lot sold by order, no reserve price: reduced fees of 14.40 % in addition to the bids. Provenance : Anonymous sale, London, 10 July 1987 (Christie's), No. 121 (attributed to Gaetano Gandolfi). Walpole Gallery, 1990. Bibliography: D. Biagi Maino, Ubaldo Gandolfi, Turin, 1990, n° 37, reproduced fig. 76; P. Bagni, I Gandolfi, Bologna, 1992, no. 73, reproduced. Related drawing : Drawing, Florence, Uffizi Gallery (see Biagi Maino, op. supra, no. 37). Donatella Biagi Maino dates this painting to around 1767 and relates it to a preparatory drawing kept at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence (see D. Biagi Maino, op. cit. supra, no. 37). It was during the the second half of the 1760s that Ubaldo's painting was marked by a new vitality, a more realism and a keen sense of colour influenced by Venetian painting. The use of shadow 69, rue Sainte-Anne - 75002 Paris - Tél : 01 47 03 48 78 - FAx : 01 42 60 59 32 - eric.turquin@turquin.fr - www.turquin.fr Eric Turquin Expertise, S.A.S. with a capital of 550.000 euros - RCS Paris B 382 236 859 - Code APE 741 C - Siret 382 236 859 00015 - VAT : FR 63 382 236 859 and light, the fluidity of the painting in our picture are typical of Ubaldo's painting at that time. period. The spectacular lighting is notable in other compositions as in the Saint Vincent Ferreri from the church of San Domenico in Budrio, dated 1765 (see D. Biagi Maino, opus quoted above, no. 30, fig. 66) and the Christ in Glory with St. Lawrence, St. Anthony of Padua, St. Ignatius of Loyola and Eligio, dated 1766 and preserved in San Mamante de Medicina (see D. Biagi Maino, op. cit. supra, no. 32), reproduced in fig. 69). Stylistically, Ubaldo's work falls within the framework of the late Bolognese Baroque. However, still in the 1760s, Ubaldo travelled a lot with his brother Gaetano and visited Florence and Venice. It is then that the style of the Gandolfi brothers reaches the closest point of convergence and that the two artists reveal in their works the influence of Venetian painting. Prisco Bagni, for his part, dates the Visitation to 1763-1765 and brings it closer to Christ and the Canaanite Woman preserved in the church of Santa Maria della Misericordia (see P. Bagni, op. cit. supra, no. 66 reproduced) and Christ and the adulterous woman preserved in the Städtische Kunstsammlungen in Augsburg (see P. Bagni, opus quoted above, No. 70, reproduced). IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO BID LIVE FOR THIS LOT, ONLY TELEPHONE AUCTIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO BID ONLINE FOR THIS LOT, WE ONLY ACCEPT PHONE BIDDING