{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O945135"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O945135/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2017KE6591/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2017KE6591/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2017KE6591","copyright":"©Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2019LX5599","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O945135/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O945135","accessionNumber":"D.420-1885","objectType":"Drawing","titles":[],"summaryDescription":"","physicalDescription":"","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"","categories":[{"text":"Drawings","id":"THES48966"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2017KE6591","2019LX5599"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLH","id":"THES49654"},"free":"","case":"PD","shelf":"272","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"drawings","id":"AAT33973"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[],"productionDates":[],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Drawing, studies of heads, by Gaetano Gandolfi, Bolognese school, 18th Century","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Ward-Jackson, Peter,<u> Italian Drawings Volume II. 17th-18th century</u>, London, 1979, p.143. \nThe following is the full text of the entry: \n\r\nGANDOLFI, GAETANO\r\n(1734-1802)\r\n1015\r\nStudies of five heads\r\nInscribed on the back in ink in an old hand and in pencil in a modern hand ‘Donato Creti’\r\nPen and ink\r\n8 ¼ x 11 3/8 (212 x 290) D.420-1885\r\nPROVENANCE Bought 1885\n\r\nThe old attribution to Creti, recorded in the inscription, is reasonable, since he made sketches of heads somewhat like these. Some examples are illustrated in R. Robi, ‘I disegni di Donato Creti agli Uffizi’ in <i>Bolletino d’Arte</i>, 47, 1962, pp. 241-50. But Gandolfi also covered sheets with such sketches. There is an example in the British Museum (1869-6-12-593. Photo Gernsheim 4833-1950), and it is obviously by the same hand as our drawing. Gandolfi differs from Creti in using a denser and more elaborate form of hatching, laying the strokes close together and over each other in a fine mesh and shading off by means of dots, like an engraver. He produces stronger contrasts of light and shade. His sulky mouths are characteristic. Creti’s facial expressions are softer, sweeter and more conventional. \r\n"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["D.420-1885"],"accessionNumberNum":"420","accessionNumberPrefix":"D","accessionYear":1885,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-04-28","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-30","availableToBook":false}}