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Two Friezes with Women and Sea Monsters
Felice Giani (Italian, 1758–1823)
ca. 1820
- Medium
- Pen and dark brown ink, brush and sepia wash over black chalk on off white laid paper
- Classification
- Figures (representations)
- Dimensions
- 27.7 x 20.7 cm (10 7/8 x 8 1/8 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
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Sea horse with enormously long sea body, conducted by rein of flying putto. Above sea horse's long back, woman lying apparently supporting a dish. Upon one of scrolls of body, sits putto. Below, woman with casket, resting upon sea ox.
