Artist/Maker
William Henry Walker
(1871 - 1938)
Subject a Member or Associate
Dutch Treat Club
Portrait of Alfredo Gandolfi (1884?-1963)
1930
Graphite on notepad tissue paper
Overall: 8 x 4 9/16 in. ( 20.3 x 11.6 cm )
Gift of the Family of William Henry Walker
1990.1.103
The subject, an operatic baritone, performed with New York's Metropolitan Opera Company from 1929 to 1936.
DescriptionPortraitMarkingssignature: 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."
InscribedSigned 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"
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