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    Telemachus, Believing that His Father, Ulysses, Is Dead, Searches for Him in the Underworld, from The Adventures of Telemachus, Book 18
    Bartolomeo Pinelli. Telemachus, Believing that His Father, Ulysses, Is Dead, Searches for Him in the Underworld, from The Adventures of Telemachus, Book 18, 1808. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00002320

    Telemachus, Believing that His Father, Ulysses, Is Dead, Searches for Him in the Underworld, from The Adventures of Telemachus, Book 18

    by Bartolomeo Pinelli

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    Sold by Walter Schatzki (died 1983), New York, to the Art Institute, 1963.

    Exhibition history

    Norton, Mass., Wheaton College, "Italian Drawings," March 1980-January 1981; also traveled to the Princeton Art Museum, Spring 1979. Baltimore, Md., Walters Art Gallery, "Italian 19th Century Painting," November 14, 1992-January 2, 1993; also traveled to the Worcester Art Museum, January 16-February 27, 1993; and Pittsburgh, Pa., the Frick Art Museum, March 13-April 25, 1993. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gods and (Super)heroes: Drawing in an Age of Revolution", November 16, 2017 - April 1, 2018.

    Publications

    Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings of the 17th through 19th Centuries (Chicago, 1980), no. 2G3.

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Bartolomeo Pinelli / Italian, 1781-1835
    Date
    1808
    Medium
    Pen and black ink, with brush and brown and gray wash, over traces of black chalk on ivory laid paper, laid down on board
    Dimensions
    Sight: 48 × 59 cm (18 15/16 × 23 1/4 in.); Overall: 55.6 × 66.7 cm (21 15/16 × 26 5/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    drawings (visual works)
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Wirt D. Walker Fund
    Accession no.
    1963.559

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