Gaetano Gandolfi

Minerva with her Sacred Bird, the Owl

c. 1767

Dating

Approximate

Made in

Italy

Held at

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on laid paper

Dimensions

8 5/8 x 8 in. (21.91 x 20.32 cm) (oval) 19 3/4 × 15 3/4 × 1 1/8 in. (50.17 × 40.01 × 2.86 cm) (outer frame)

Collection no.

66.67

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

Public Domain Mark 1.0License details

Gaetano Gandolfi. Minerva with her Sacred Bird, the Owl. Gaetano Gandolfi; Minneapolis Institute of Art; The David M. Daniels Fund; 66.67. Public Domain Mark 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.