Painted Wall Decoration
date: label: Date
content: 1800–1830
name: label: Artist
content: Mauro Gandolfi, Italian, 1764–1834
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A herme with a woman's bust supporting the entablature, rises from a dado in front of the wall. A sanke surround the lower parts. Niches are laterally placed. A sacrificing priestess is shown in the left one, a child holds the incense boy--two dancing puttis holding wreaths and garlands dragging from a candelabrum are shown in the right niche.
place: label: made in
content: Bologna, 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 and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-4355
objectType: label: Type
content: interiors
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 watercolor on white laid paper, squared in graphite and lined
label: Dimensions
content: 19.7 x 20.5 cm (7 3/4 x 8 1/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Mat: 40.6 x 55.9 cm (16 x 22 in.)