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

1809

Bartolomeo Pinelli

Artist, Italian, 1781 - 1835

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

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

  • Credit Line

    William B. O'Neal Fund

  • Dimensions

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

  • Accession

    2014.94.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

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.

Inscriptions

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

Markings

obliterated collectors' marks

Wikidata ID

Q64537161

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