Five Grotesque Heads
1750–1800
Gaetano Gandolfi
Gaetano Gandolfi (Italian, 1734–1802)
Drawings
Five Grotesque Heads, 1750–1800. Gaetano Gandolfi (Italian, 1734–1802). Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk; sheet: 29.5 x 20.2 cm (11 5/8 x 7 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Frederick M. Mayer 1969.277 The term "grotesque" derives from the Italian word "grotteschi," which refers to the grottoes found in ancient Roman houses that were rediscovered around 1500.
- Maker/Artist
- Gandolfi, Gaetano
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 29.5 x 20.2 cm (11 5/8 x 7 15/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: verso, upper left, in graphite: [9?] Inscription: lower left, in graphite: 91127 Inscription: lower right, in graphite(?): 6 -
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1969.277
- Credit Line
- Gift of Frederick M. Mayer
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1970, Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions, 18th Century Master Drawings, Graphic Humor, Stories From Storage, CMA, Graphic Humor (June 1-Aug. 29, 1982).<br>CMA, Eighteenth-Century Master Drawings from the Collection (Oct. 6-Nov. 22, 1981).<br>CMA, Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions (Oct. 21, 1980-Feb. 15, 1981).<br>CMA, "Year in Review for 1970" (Feb. 10-Mar. 7, 1971), cma Bulletin 58 (1971), p. 67 no. 78.<br><br>[did not find a registrarial file for this one, Apr. 1996]-?
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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