Venus Ordering Armor for Aeneas at Vulcan's Forge, ca. between 1770 and 1775

  • Gaetano Gandolfi, Italian, 1734-1802

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 75 3/8 × 56 1/8 inches (191.5 × 142.5 cm)
  • 82 7/8 × 63 3/8 × 3 3/8 inches (210.5 × 161 × 8.6 cm)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Allan Shelden III

74.2

On View

  • European: Influence of Ancient Greeks and Romans, Level 2, South

Department

European Painting

Comte Raymond de Castellane (France)

March 5–9, 1934, presented at auction (J.J. Terris, Palais des Fêtes et des Expositions, Nice France), "Tableaux Anciens…de Monsieur le Comte R. de Castellane," lot 49

October 29, 1937, presented at auction, (Hôtel Drouot), "Objets d’Art et d’Ambeublement…," lot 10

1973, (Heim Gallery, London, England)

1973, Mr. & Mrs. Allan Shelden III (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1974–present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Catalogue...Composant le Mobilier et les Collections de Monsieur le Comte R. de Castellane. Sales cat., J.-J. Terris, Nice, France, March 5–9, 1934, p. 10, no. 49 (ill.). Objets d'Art et d'Ameublement... Sales cat., Hôtel Drouot, Paris, France, October 29, 1937, p. 4, no. 10. Bénézit, E[mmanuel]. "Gaetano Gandolfi" In Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, vol. 4. Paris, 1966, p. 149. [also see 1976 edition, vol. 4, p. 604] Paintings & Sculptures of the Italian Baroque. Exh. cat., Heim Gallery Ltd. London, 1973, unpaginated, no. 22 (ill.). "Advertisement, Heim Summer Exhibition 1973: Paintings and Sculptures of the Italian Baroque" The Connoisseur 183, no. 737 (July 1973): p. 29 (ill.). Winokur, Ronald L. "Curatorial and Museum Department Reports: Department of European Art" Bulletin of the DIA 53, no. 2 (1974): p. 55 (ill.). Roli, Renato. Pittura Bolognese 1650–1800: Dal Cignani ai Gandolfi. Bologna, 1977, pp. 128, 264, pl. 278a (ill.). Trafalgar Galleries at the Royal Academy IV. Exh. cat., Trafalgar Galleries. London, 1985, p. 52 (ill.). Masterpieces from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., The Bunkamura Museum of Art et al. Tokyo, 1989, pp. 76; 166–167, no. 44 (ill.); 214, no. 44 (ill.). Maino, Donatella Biagi. "La pittura del Settecento a Parma e a Piacenza." In La Pittura in Italia: Il Setteceno, vol. 1, ed, Giuliano Briganti. Milan, 1990, p. 283. Bagni, Prisco. I Gandolfi: Affreschi Dipinti Bozzetti Disegni. Bologna, 1992, p. 235, no. 216 (ill.). Cazort, Mimi. Bella Pittura: The Art of the Gandolfi. Exh. Cat, National Gallery of Canada. Ottawa, 1993, pp. 16; p. 67, no. 44 (ill.). Maino, Donatella Biagi. Gaetano Gandolfi. Turin, 1995, no. 50, pl. 56 (ill.). [See also, no. 49, pl. 53 (details pls. 54–55)] Bissell, R. Ward, Derstine, A. and Miller, Dwight. Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2005, pp. 10, 78–81, no. 26 (ill.). Derstine, Andria. "The Detroit Institute of Arts and Italian Baroque Painting." In Buying Baroque: Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America, ed. Edgar Peters Bowron. University Park, 2017, p. 97. Marandel, J. Patrice. "Dealing and Scholarship: The Heim Gallery, London 1966–1995." In Buying Baroque: Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America, ed. Edgar Peters Bowron. University Park, 2017, p. 85.

Gaetano Gandolfi, Venus Ordering Armor for Aeneas at Vulcan's Forge, ca. between 1770 and 1775, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Allan Shelden III, 74.2.