Dante Flees the Wild Beasts and Meets Virgil
Medium
graphite on laid paper, mounted on nineteenth-century album sheet
Dimensions
sheet: 25.7 x 37.8 cm (10 1/8 x 14 7/8 in.) overall (album sheet): 35.2 x 50 cm (13 7/8 x 19 11/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Alexandra Baer
Accession Number
2007.149.1
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. ...