Design for the Decoration of a Wall and Ceiling of a 'Gabinetto' related to Virgil's Fourth Canto
Felice Giani
1758–1823
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and pink, yellow, orange and blue-green wash, over traces of leadpoint
Dimensions
11 11/16 x 8 1/16 in. (29.7 x 20.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1952
Accession Number
52.570.64
Tags
Architecture
About the Artist
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.