Dante Flees the Wild Beasts and Meets Virgil

1824

Bartolomeo Pinelli

Artist, Italian, 1781 - 1835

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite on laid paper, mounted on nineteenth-century album sheet

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Alexandra Baer

  • 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.)

  • Accession

    2007.149.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Baer Collection, Atlanta. Gift to NGA, 2007.

Associated Names

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.

Inscriptions

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

Wikidata ID

Q64537156

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