Woman in Native Costume with Boy on Road

Woman in Native Costume with Boy on Road by Bartolomeo Pinelli

Medium

Watercolor over traces of graphite, on ivory wove paper

Dimensions

23.9 × 18.7 cm (9 7/16 × 7 3/8 in.)

Classification

watercolor

Department

Prints and Drawings

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Accession Number

114714

About the Artist

Bartolomeo Pinelli · 17811835

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. ...

    Send Feedback