Telemachus Requests Permission from Pluto to Seek His Father in the Underworld, 1809

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown and gray wash over graphite on heavy laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 41.5 × 57.8 cm (16 5/16 × 22 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

William B. O'Neal Fund

Accession Number

2014.94.1

Artists / Makers

Bartolomeo Pinelli (artist) Italian, 1781 - 1835

Image Use

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Inscription

verso in Pinelli's hand: Telemaco implora da Plutone la grazia di ricercare / suo padre, se fosse nel Tartaro / Pinelli fece 1809 Roma; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: Bartolommeo Pinelli Historienmaler / 1781 - 1855 Rom / Fürtig Rom und Bologna

Marks and Labels

obliterated collectors' marks

Provenance

(Nicolaas Teeuwisse OHG, Berlin); purchased 2014 by NGA.

Associated Names

Nicolaas Teeuwisse OHG

Exhibition History

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

Bibliography

2014: Nicolaas Teeuwisse. Selected Works, Tefaf 2014. Berlin, 2014: no.136.