Venus, design for a ceiling painting for the Teatro Argentina in Rome
date: label: Date
content: 1860–1861
name: label: Artist
content: Francesco Grandi, Italian, 1831 - 1891
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Recto: Circular composition. The goddess is sitting upon clouds, breasts and lap covered with a cloth. Beside her, at left, Cupid, addressing her, at right the two doves. Written below, at right: "Soffitta teatro Argentina," and "F. Grandi"
label: Description
content: Verso: In opposite direction: at left, the upper act of the Deposition. At right: The Virgin, turned toward left; the right leg not drawn.
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 and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-7131
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Crayon, carbon on blue paper.
label: Dimensions
content: 43.2 x 51 cm (17 in. x 20 1/16 in.)