Design for Wall or Ceiling Decoration with Bacchus, Hymen and Venus
date: label: Date
content: 1790–1800
name: label: Artist
content: Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Hymen standing, embraces Dionysos with right arm and raises torch with his left arm. At left Dionysos sits upon throne, together with lion; he leans left hand upon pitcher, supports hand thyrsos with right. At right Venus sits, holding a wreath with each hand. Upon clouds in foreground at left, the mask of satyr, with tamborine and other musical instrument on vine. At right, two kissing doves. Below caption: "Imene Bacco e Venere." Verso: perhaps written by Giani, "26" and "44."
place: label: made in
content: Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase through gift of various donors
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1901-39-1806
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, black chalk, graphite on off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 30.6 x 21.7 cm (12 1/16 x 8 9/16 in.)