Design for an Ovoidal Painting: Temperance

A seated woman in flowing drapery leans forward beside a large urn on a stone ledge, within an oval outline drawn on brown paper. The design is rendered in sepia wash, pen and ink, and white gouache, with the word "Temperanza" 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

2099 × 2560 px

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