Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Decoration for vaulted ceiling. Fret band and frame subdivided into nine panels. Lower rows: quadrangular panels decorated with flying genii; central panel shows seated woman and putto. Top row: triangular panels decorated with wreaths and masks. Inscribed in ink, above drawing: Camera da letto. In right corner, sketch in octagonal panel; Cornelia sitting in room with two standing figures. Inscribed above, in ink: corneglia madre dei/ grachi. Verso: sketch with variation of decoration. Below, one more framing frieze with rinceaux. Central panel, second row: Venus with putto holding looking-glass. Bottom row: panels decorated with dancing women and children beside candelabrum.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823
- Date
- 1816
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors
- Medium
- Pen and ink on laid paper
- Dimensions
- 25.7 x 21.2 cm (10 1/8 x 8 3/8 in.)
- Type
- architecture, interiors
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
