Couple in Love in Daylight. Tivoli Costumes

Bartolomeo Pinelli

Basic information

ID: Г-IV-1743
Author: Bartolomeo Pinelli
Name: Couple in Love in Daylight. Tivoli Costumes
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

The work is from the Roman series. The first version of the composition is known from the album Costumi di Tivoli, published in 1815 and reissued in 1816 in the album Nuova Raccolta di Cinquanta Costumi Pittoreschi incisi all 'acquaforte da Bartolomeo Pinelli Romano, Nicola de Antoni impresse, Ignazio Pavon Offre e Dedica Roma, Roma 1816. A version similar to the Lviv one was released in the album Nuova Raccolta di Cinquanta Costumi Pittoreschi (New Collection of Fifty Picturesque Costumes), published by Giovanni Scudellari in Rome in 1817. The second version was almost the same as the first one. In the centre of the foreground, one can see a young man and a girl who met near the house's entrance. He behaves like a sophisticated gentleman. The man is wearing a tilted hat and a jacket over his shoulder. He is standing with one foot placed on the stairs. The young beauty is looking at him, standing at the entrance and raising her finger. She might be warning him or arranging something with him. She is dressed in a white shirt, blue apron, and long pink skirt. An old blind woman is depicted in the doorway to the girl's left. She is shown sitting on a wooden chair and spinning something on a spindle. In the background on the right is another old house with an arched doorway, above which one can see a mountain top. The characters' clothes are painted with bright watercolours, namely red, blue, yellow, and pink tones. The architecture is depicted in blurred grey and blue, ocher, and pink colours.
Tivoli is a city in the Lazio region northwest of Rome. It was built up during the Renaissance thanks to popes and cardinals.

Inscriptions

In the lower right corner, there is the author's signature Pinelli f [fecit], date – 1816, and the place of performance – Roma. In the centre of the engraving, under the image, is the work's title L'Innamorati, di giorno, Costumi di Tivoli. The number "35" is in the upper right corner above the plate.

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