# Recto: Two Friezes with Flowers Verso: Sketch for a Decorative Painting

- By: Felice Giani (Italian, 1758–1823)
- Date: ca. 1815
- Medium: Pen and brown ink on paper
- Classification: Figures (representations)
- Dimensions: 14.8 x 19.8 cm (5 13/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
- Culture: Italy
- Credit line: Museum purchase through gift of various donors
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/7691)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/4c95357fe397360dcefc3771bc2c2ae3.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Horizontal rectangle. Recto: Above: two waved ribbons crossing each other. Calices stand in wedges. In ovoids are lozenges with curved edges, wreath around masks inside. Numbers inscribed and explained in caption: "1 tuta colorita/ 2 turchino/ 3 fondo rosso/ 4 giallo limone/ 5 pavonasso/ 6 fiore verde/ 7 foglie del ovato colo\[r\] di rosa/ 8 Line\[e\] gialle/ 9 fondo della maschera celeste." Below: decorated ribbon around horizontal bar from which sprays spring. Caption: "1 Linea verde/ 2 fondo della fetucia, perlino/ 3 giole della festucia verdi legate in oro/ con perle/ 4 meandro giallo/ 5 fondo del meandro turchino/ 6 triangolo rosso con perla/ 7 fiore bianco/ foglie verdi." Verso: above, two figures written in octagon: "venere in abito/ di caciatrice insegn\[a\] Cartagine a Enea." Two figures, Aeneas and Dido, shown in cave. Underneath figures, caption in pencil: "Enea con Didone nel antro/ ...imene."