# Portrait of Antonio Ghedini and his Family

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## Artwork

- Artist: [BALDRIGHI, Giuseppe](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/baldrighi-giuseppe-rd0307a29804e2d>)
- Date: 1751-1800
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 170 x 123 cm

## Commentary

Antonio Ghedini from Parma was an official cloth merchant to the Bourbon court. As befits the family of a leading cloth merchant, the Ghedini family are suitably modishly attired: his wife wears a brocaded silk open robe with foliate stripes, salmon-pink furbelows and matching stomacher. Formerly the portrait had been ascribed to the French court painter Louis Michel van Loo. The confusion is perhaps understandable, for Baldrighi&#39;s style was formed in Paris, where the Duke&#39;s minister Guillaume du Tillot had sent him for training.

## Related artworks

- [Portrait of a Lady in an Elaborately Embroidered Blue Dress](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/baldrighi-giuseppe-rd0307a29804e2d/portrait-of-a-lady-in-an-elaborately-embroidered-blue-dress-r1d38611c403bd8>)
- [The Family of Philip, Duke of Parma](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/baldrighi-giuseppe-rd0307a29804e2d/the-family-of-philip-duke-of-parma-r105077f8d2165a>)

## Attribution

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