Artwork
A Charlatan Selling Blacking in the Piazza Barberini in Rome
A Charlatan Selling Blacking in the Piazza Barberini in Rome is a photography by Unknown. It dates from 1850 and is held in the collection of the Statens Museum for Kunst.
About this work
Overview
A Charlatan Selling Blacking in the Piazza Barberini in Rome is a painting created around 1850, currently held at the Museum of Ethnography.
Subject & Meaning
The painting depicts a lively scene in a city square, where a charlatan, dressed in a blue coat and white hat, is selling blacking to a gathered crowd, including a woman in a white headscarf and a man in a black hat.
Technique & Style
The work showcases the artist's attention to detail and realism, capturing the atmosphere of everyday life in 19th-century Rome.
Artist & collection
Domestic Scene
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The Nymph of Fontainebleau
Portrait of a Woman
Madonna and Child with Saints in the Enclosed Garden
Venus and Minerva
Family Group of Four on Sofa
Wall painting from Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale
