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Woman from Brienza in the Province of Salerno in the Kingdom of Naples

Bartolomeo Pinelli

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ID: Г-IV-1700
Author: Bartolomeo Pinelli
Name: Woman from Brienza in the Province of Salerno in the Kingdom of Naples
Date of creation: 1816
Technique: etching watercolour
Material: paper
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 10 x 16

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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 composition is known only in one version of 1816, which was issued in the album Raccolta di Cinquanta Costumi li più interessanti delle città, terre e paesi in provincie diverse del Regno di Napoli (Collection of Fifty Most Interesting Picturesque Costumes from Cities, Towns and Villages of Different Provinces of the Kingdom of Naples) published by Giovanni Scudellari in Rome in 1817. The artist depicts a young woman in a luxurious national dress, an apron embroidered with gold threads, dressed over a white shirt and blue skirt. The woman is holding a little girl's hand; with the other hand, she is leaning on a stick; there is a basket over her shoulder. The travellers are walking along the mountain path. In the background, there is a mountain range under which one can see the citadel of a small town. This is Brienza, one of the mountain towns of the Southern Italian province of Basilicata, which in the nineteenth century was a part of the province of Salerno. The travellers' clothing is painted with blue, red, and yellow watercolours. The trees are painted with green colours.

Inscriptions

In the lower left corner, there is the author's signature – Pinelli, the date – 1816, and the place of performance – Roma. In the centre of the engraving, under the image, is the work's title Donna di Brienza, della Provincia di Salerno, nel Regno di Napoli. The number "2" is in the upper right corner above the image.

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