Venus presents Cupid to Calypso

Pinelli, Bartolomeo (1781-1835)

Item type:

drawing

Date of creation:

early 19th century

Height:

46.4 cm  (18 1/4 in.)

Width:

58.8 cm  (23 1/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

Pen and black ink with brush and brown and gray wash with traces of black chalk on ivory laid paper laid down on board

Place of creation:

Italia

Description

Calypso holds a lyre. One of a series of watercolors intended for engraving but never done.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lyre [3501] (Calypso holds a lyre.)

RIdIM images

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Joachim, Harold. Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings of the 17th through 19th Centuries. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980). No. 2G4.

Owens, Margareth Boyer. Art Institute of Chicago. RIdIM/RCMI Inventory of Music Iconography, no. 2. Edited by Terence Ford. New York: Research Center for Musical Iconography, 1987. 375dr95. RILM 1988-275.

RIdIM record id

1663