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Bartolomeo Pinelli

Dante Flees the Wild Beasts and Meets Virgil, 1824

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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.)

Credit Line

Gift of Alexandra Baer

Accession Number

2007.149.1

Artists / Makers

Bartolomeo Pinelli (artist) Italian, 1781 - 1835

Image Use

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Inscription

below drawing on mount in graphite: Dante, Inferno I 64 / Pinelli; Retzsch? / Winkler [not deciphered]

Provenance

Baer Collection, Atlanta. Gift to NGA, 2007.

Associated Names

Baer, Alexandra

Exhibition History

2014: From Neoclassicism to Futurism: Italian Prints and Drawings, 1800- 1925, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2014 - 2015.

2023: Going through Hell: The Divine Dante, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.

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