The Count of Comminges Recognizes Adelaide after Her Death

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2006.317
People: Bartolomeo Pinelli, Italian (Rome, Italy 1781 - 1835 Rome, Italy)
Title: The Count of Comminges Recognizes Adelaide after Her Death
Other Titles: Alternate Title: Death of a Monk
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 18th-19th century
Culture: Italian
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/141853

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink, brown and gray wash, and white gouache over graphite and black chalk on cream antique laid paper

Dimensions

67.5 x 102.8 cm (26 9/16 x 40 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

label: back of frame, u.r., paper and black ink, printed: Edgewater House / Collection of Jeffery E. Horvitz / Bartolomeo Pinelli / Rome 1781-1835 Rome / Death of a Monk / D-I-53 / Bin R-4

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: [Thomas Williams Fine Art, Ltd, London] sold; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Beverly Farms, Mass., 1995, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2006

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz
Accession Year: 2006
Object Number: 2006.317
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Enrico Morpurgo, "Pinelli Romantico", L'Urbe: revista romana di storia, arte, lettere, costumanze, Fratelli Palombi Editori (Rome, Italy, 1968), vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 17-21, p. 20, fig. 8 repr., n.p.

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