Design for Wall Decoration, Pompeiian Room, Palazzo Altieri, Rome
date: label: Date
content: 1792
name: label: Designer
content: Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A fragment of an extensively decorated wall.The rendering occupies the entire sheet. Above the space for the door opening is a representation of flying Eros and Psyche. The lower part of the wall is treated as a dado, having friezes with two intertwined rows of festoons. The main panel is an imaginary painting of Psyche, having won the favor of the goddess Ceres by arranging in due order the heaps of grain scattered in front of her temple.This panel appears to hang in front of a red panel, decorated with a motif of candelabra at left and right as well as with a motif of festoons with putti and satyrs, above and below. Other smaller panels, to the left of the door opening and to the right of the main panel, contain images of Eros (left) and Psyche (right).
place: label: made in
content: Rome, 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: 1901-39-1545
objectType: label: Type
content: wallpaper designs
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, brown wash, traces of graphite on paper, lined with blue paper
label: Dimensions
content: 51.3 x 29.5 cm (20 3/16 x 11 5/8 in.)