Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Design for a painted ceiling featuring two putti at left and right holding drapery that supports garland of fruit and leaves below. On ceiling, partially completed design for painting including figures, animals, and angels. Highly decorated with various options for patterns including a Greek key border.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- ca. 1590
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk on off-white laid paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 21 × 33 cm (8 1/4 in. × 13 in.)
- Type
- interiors
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
