La Befana, 1821

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series Title

Various Customs, Invented and Etched by Bartolomeo Pinelli (Plate 12)

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 32.1 × 41.3 cm (12 5/8 × 16 1/4 in.)

sheet: 41.7 × 54.4 cm (16 7/16 × 21 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Della Rocchetta 1956, no. 168, State only

Accession Number

2012.92.587

Artists / Makers

Bartolomeo Pinelli (artist) Italian, 1781 - 1835

Image Use

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Inscription

in image, at top center: VENITE BEFANARI / CHE E VENUTA / LA BEFANA; below image, at left: Pinelli dis. e. inc.; below image, at center: La Befana Costume in Roma, il mese de Gennajo; below image, at right: Roma 1821

Provenance

(Paul Prouté, S.A., Paris); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased July 3, 1976; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Prouté, S.A., Paul

Bibliography

1956: Della Rocchetta, Giovani Incisa. Bartolomeo Pinelli. Rome, 1956: no. 168, only