Hades; Persephone in the Underworld (Offering to Proserpine)
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: Proserpina, Pluto and Sleep are shown at right seated upon a platform, with the Fates standing behind them. Proserpina extends a branch toward a girls lead to her by Death, a bearded man with a bat upon his head and his name “VS” upon his right sleeve. A man supporting a dead woman comes from left; a boy clings to him. Others come to perform sacrifices. The setting is the hall of the Underworld, lighted by lamps. Other parts of the Underworld with a wheel of torture are shown in the 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: 1901-39-3345
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 paper
label: Dimensions
content: Mat: 71.2 x 91.6 cm (28 1/16 x 36 1/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: 51 x 78 cm (20 1/16 x 30 11/16 in.)