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La Compagnia dei sacconi al Colosseo (Penitents Praying at Altars in the Colosseum)
1829
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- watercolor over black chalk and graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 24.2 x 29.9 cm (9 1/2 x 11 3/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2011.50.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Bartolomeo Pinelli. La Compagnia dei sacconi al Colosseo (Penitents Praying at Altars in the Colosseum). Bartolomeo Pinelli; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bartolomeo_Pinelli,_La_Compagnia_dei_sacconi_al_Colosseo_(Penitents_Praying_at_Altars_in_the_Colosseum),_1829,_NGA_154659.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
La Compagnia dei sacconi al Colosseo (Penitents Praying at Altars in the Colosseum) — Bartolomeo Pinelli. 1829.
Medium: watercolor over black chalk and graphite on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 24.2 x 29.9 cm (9 1/2 x 11 3/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2011.50.1. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.