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The Serenade

Object Details

Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Two boys play the mandolin, two more listen in poses similar to those of the one leaning against a stone and the seated one plate 6, loc. cit. The girl listens from a Romanesque twin window. Mountainous landscape.
Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Artist
Bartolomeo Pinelli, Roman, 1781 - 1835
Date
1807–08
Credit Line
Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
Medium
Pen and gray ink with watercolor and black chalk on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
H x W: 20.4 × 27.5 cm (8 1/16 × 10 13/16 in.)
Object Name
Drawing
Type
Drawing

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