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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1998.57
People
Bartolomeo Pinelli, Italian (Rome, Italy 1781 - 1835 Rome, Italy)
Title
The Order of Penitents, known as the Sacconi, in Procession from the via Crucis del Colosseo to San Adriano
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c.1820
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/211346

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor, black ink and graphite on cream wove paper, mounted to brown paper
Dimensions
20.7 x 25.8 cm (8 1/8 x 10 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, lower right: Pinelli fece. 1816 Roma
  • inscription: lower right, black ink, Italian, signed, in artist's hand: Pinelli fece. 1816 Roma
  • inscription: old mount, lower edge, black ink, Italian, in artist's hand: Costumi dei Penitenti, detti, Sacconi, sono pure così vestiti quelli che portano li morti nelle Chiese, avendo invece di questi le scarpe ai piedi. [=Costumes of the Penitents, called the Sacconi, also dressed this way are the ones who bring the dead into the churches are dressed this way, but having instead shoes on their feet. ]
  • inscription: back of old mount, graphite: Per n. 5
  • label: verso of old frame, printed adhesive label with black ink inscriptions: Christie's / Stock # K5484 / Line # 37 / Dept: OMD. Barcode [on a second sticker fixed to the label] 03275948

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Bernice Davidson, New York, NY, Gift to HUAM, 1998.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernice Davidson
Accession Year
1998
Object Number
1998.57
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings from 1480 to 1940, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/25/2000 - 07/02/2000

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