Interior of a Roman Inn, 1817.
Medium
Watercolor over graphite
Dimensions
sheet: 11 3/8 x 16 5/8 in. (28.9 x 42.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of János Scholz, 1956
Accession Number
56.541.2
Tags
Musical InstrumentsInnsInteriorsMenWomen
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. ...