(b. 1734, S Matteo della Decima, d. 1802, Bologna)
The Agony of Christ
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Oil on copper, 60 x 40 cm
Private collection
This characteristic work by Gaetano Gandolfi was probably a preparatory modello for a larger, unknown painting. Gandolfi produced freely painted, but highly finished, preliminary pictures, often of a reasonably large size, from early on.
