Sketches for the Painted Decoration of Ceilings
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1820
name: label: Designer
content: Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Recto: decoration for three panels, square panel with lunettes and two oblong panels. Each panel has frame. Decoration of corner panel disposed obliquely. At right, circle with putto in act of climbing upon sitting woman.
label: Description
content: Verso: More than quarter of page shown--center medallion with figure with triangles at outside of frame. Ceiling divided into geometric panels with ornaments. Inscribed at right: tutta l'intelavatura si dovrebbe fare a chiaroscuro paletto. Rough sketch for framing of central medallion.
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: 1901-39-1634
objectType: label: Type
content: interiors
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and dark brown ink on light brown laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 31.5 x 21.7 cm (12 3/8 x 8 9/16 in.)