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Woman from the Village of Pietro Terrazzano and Gioncata (Milk Cheese) Seller

Bartolomeo Pinelli

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Basic information
ID
Г-IV-1726
Author
Bartolomeo Pinelli
Name
Woman from the Village of Pietro Terrazzano and Gioncata (Milk Cheese) Seller
Date of creation
1816
Technique
etching watercolour
Material
paper
Dimensions (height x width, cm)
10 x 16
Additionally
Type
graphic art
Genre
genre art
Provenance
Collection of Faina Tarashchanska (Lviv), 1966
Information about author
Author
Bartolomeo Pinelli
Artist's lifetime
1781–1835
Country
Italy
Biography
Bartolomeo Pinelli (1781, Rome – 1835, ibid.) was an Italian painter, engraver, and sculptor. He was the son of the ceramist G. B. Pinelli. Bartolomeo was born in ​​the Trastevere district (over the Tiber River). He studied in Bologna and later at the Academy of Saint Luke in Rome. The artist attended the Academy of Felice Giani, an Italian painter of the Neoclassic style, from whom he adopted the drawing style. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Pinelli took an interest in the engravings of the Renaissance, namely in the works by Marcantonio Raimondi, and started making etchings and lithographs out of his drawings. In 1809, Pinelli created his first series of watercolour etchings – Collection of Fifty Picturesque Costumes (Raccolta di Cinquanta Costumi Pittoreschi). The album was reissued in 1814 and 1815. In 1816, a new version of the album under the title New Collection of Fifty Picturesque Costumes (Nuova Raccolta di Cinquanta Costumi Pittoreschi incisi di acqua forte) was released. Most of the Lviv engravings are from this series. The central theme of the artist's work is genre scenes (Costumi), which he saw in Rome and Naples, as well as the provinces of Abruzzo and Molise. Pinelli's engravings are not only of artistic value but also carry important ethnographic information. In the 1820s and 1830s, the artist created drawings and engravings for poems by Torquato Tasso (1827–1829) and the novel "Don Quixote" (1834) by Miguel de Cervantes. One of Pinelli's famous series of drawings is "Seven Hills of Rome" (Sette colli di Roma) (1827–1830). The artist's works are housed in many Italian museums and collections of other countries.
Object description
There are two versions of this composition by B. Pinelli dating back to 1809 and 1815–1816. In the first version, which the artist performed for the album Raccolta di Cinquanta Costumi Pittoreschi (Collection of Fifty Picturesque Costumes), the child is depicted to the left of a woman sitting on a stone. The child is shown on the right in the second version, known from the album Nuova Raccolta di Cinquanta Costumi Pittoreschi (New Collection of Fifty Picturesque Costumes). The Lviv version replicates the second composition. A woman is dressed in the national costume of the Abruzzo region, in particular in a blue jacket, a long burgundy skirt with an ornamented apron over it, a traditional headscarf, and light, blue shoes. She is leaning on a basket on a high boulder under a rocky slope. To the right of the woman, a child is pointing at a traveller coming from the right. This is a young man, a seller of milk cheese (gioncata or giuncata), with a basket on a stick-lever over his shoulder and with a pot. The young man is dressed in a jacket and blue pants, with high ciocia on his feet. He has a dark hat on his head. In 1810, the album Nuova Raccolta di Cinquanta Motivi Pittoreschi, e Costumi di Roma, with the works by Bartolomeo Pinelli, was published in Rome. The gioncata seller was represented separately on page № 28 of the album. 
Gioncata, or giuncata, is a traditional soft milk cheese drained as a liquid before consumption. The name comes from the basket made of cane (Italian: giunco), in which this cheese is formed.
Inscriptions
In the lower right corner, there is the author's signature in italics – Pinelli, the date – 1816, and the place of performance – Roma (illegibly). In the centre of the engraving, under the image, is the work's title Donna del Paese di Pietra Terrazzana, e il Gioncataro. The number "24" is in the upper right corner above the plate.
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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