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Design for the Decoration of a Wall and Ceiling of a 'Gabinetto' related to Virgil's Fourth Canto
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Design for the Decoration of a Wall and Ceiling of a 'Gabinetto' related to Virgil's Fourth Canto

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)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1952

Classification

Drawings|Ornament & Architecture

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.