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Description: Provenance: M.G. Anckarsvärd ; A Michaelson ; K. Michaelson ; S. Josephson ; Acquired by the museum in 1896

Lidia Bianchi made the first attempt to define the oeuvre of Ubaldo and that of his younger brother Gaetano, treating mainly the paintings. Throughout his career, however, Ubaldo was also a prolific draughtsman. Lanzi mentions as his teacher Ercole Lelli, who taught both drawing and anatomy. This could explain Ubaldo's anatomical mastery?

Mary Cazort Taylor laid the groundwork for a serious study of the Gandolfi brothers' drawings, publishing a limited number of extremely well documented sheets. Our drawing, with its dark but disciplined wash and faultless anatomy, would seem to date to the 1770s, a rather late phase of Ubaldo's career. There are obvious parallels to The Martyrdom of St. James the Greater in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 1500]

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