Worship of Venus in a Classical Landscape
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1820
name: label: Artist
content: Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A statue of Venus is shown in profile at right. A man carrying a child points to it; he stepped downstairs from a temple. A pageant of worshippers approach from left. A park with monuments is in the left background.
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: 1901-39-2198
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 black ink, brush and brown wash, graphite on cream laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Mat: 71.2 x 91.6 cm (28 1/16 x 36 1/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: 47 x 74.5 cm (18 1/2 x 29 5/16 in.)