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Friezes; Two Caryatids; Seated Figure
Felice Giani (Italian, 1758–1823)
ca. 1800
- Medium
- Pen and ink on laid paper
- Classification
- Interior views
- Dimensions
- 44.2 x 28.1 cm (17 3/8 x 11 1/16 in.)
- Culture
- Italy
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Bottom: Frieze with four seasons. Sitting woman returning plates, upon which offerings brought to her, inscribed: PRIMAVERA. Grain harvest, inscribed: ESTATE. Drinking, harvesting wine, inscribed: AUTUNNO. Classical sacrifice of swine, inscribed: INVERNO. Top at right, two sketches of frieze with festoons supported by genii and sketch for figure of Spring. Top left, two caryatids: above upper parts of fluted columns rise half-figures of women carrying Ionic capitals upon their heads; Arms hang down and hold wreaths.
