Design for a Ceiling Painting, Venus, Cupid, and Putti
date: label: Date
content: 1700–29
name: label: Designer
content: Marc Antonio Franceschini, Italian, 1648 – 1729
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Pairs of figures seated upon clouds. Above, Venus raises an orb and embraces Cupid. Below, a pair of putti--one putto holds a bird, another raises a torch. The background is outlined as a double cross.
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: 1938-88-6430
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 ink, brush and black wash, charcoal on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 31.6 × 21.5 cm (12 7/16 × 8 7/16 in.)