Brigand Chief Held Back By a Woman (recto); Sketch fo Two Figures in a Landscape (verso)
Bartolomeo Pinelli
1801/35
Medium
Graphite (recto and verso) on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
19.4 × 17.8 cm (7 11/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
Classification
graphite
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
113676
About the Artist
Bartolomeo Pinelli · 1781–1835
Bartolomeo Pinelli (1781–1835) was an Italian artist and printmaker who became one of the most popular and prolific chroniclers of Roman popular life in the early nineteenth century. Born in Rome, he trained at the Accademia di San Luca and demonstrated precocious talent in drawing and sculpture, though it was as an engraver and illustrator that he found his true vocation and his widest audience. ...