La Compagnia dei sacconi al Colosseo (Penitents Praying at Altars in the Colosseum)
Medium
watercolor over black chalk and graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 24.2 x 29.9 cm (9 1/2 x 11 3/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
2011.50.1
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. ...