Collection Highlights
Cake board
Date:
1825-1835
Object Number:
1937.1562
Medium:
Wood (possibly mahogany)
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Portrait of Alfredo Gandolfi (1884?-1963)
Object Number:
1990.1.103
Date:
1930
Medium:
Graphite on notepad tissue paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 x 4 9/16 in. ( 20.3 x 11.6 cm )
Marks:
signature: lower left: "Wm. H. Walker"
inscription and date: lower right: "DUTCH TREAT / NOV. 18 - 1930"
inscriptions: lower center: "Alfredo Gandolfi" and upper left: "ALFREDO GANDOLFI / BARITONE, MET. OPERA CO."
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower left in graphite: "Wm.H.Walker"; inscribed at lower right: "DUTCH TREAT / Nov. 18 -- 1930"; along upper edge: "ALFREDO GANDOLFI / BARITONE. MET. OPER. & CO."; signed by sitter at lower center: "Alfredo Gandolfi"
Description:
Portrait
Gallery Label:
The subject, an operatic baritone, performed with New York's Metropolitan Opera Company from 1929 to 1936.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Family of William Henry Walker
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
