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An Artist and His Model
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An Artist and His Model

Felice Giani

1778–1823

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, on gray-brown washed paper

Tags

PaintingMenFemale NudesArtists

Dimensions

17-1/2 x 12-1/16 in. (44.4 x 30.6 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Felice Giani

1758–1823

Died 21 January 1823. Giani was a student of C.A. Bianchi and Antonio Galli Bibiena in Pavia; from 1778 he was a student of Dom. Pedrini and Ub. Gandolfi in Bologna; from 1780 he was a student of P. Batoni, Chr. Unterberger and G. Antolini at the Academy of S. Luca in Rome.

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