Design for an Ovoidal Painting: Justice

A seated female figure personifying Justice sits within an oval frame, draped in flowing robes and holding a balance scale aloft in one hand and a sword in the other. Brown wash and white highlights model the folds on tinted paper, with the word Giustizia inscribed below.

Artist

Giacomo Zampa

Date

ca. 1780

Medium

Black chalk, pen and ink, brush and sepia wash, brush and oxidized white gouache on brown paper

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

2318 × 2560 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum