Polyphemus Throwing Boulders at the Fleeing Aeis and Galatea (recto); Polyphemus Playing His Reed Pipes for Galatea (verso)
Felice Giani
n.d.
Medium
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over touches of black chalk (recto and verso), on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
13.1 × 22.4 cm (5 3/16 × 8 7/8 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
112337
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.