Four Statues in Niches: Music, Architecture, Painting, Sculpture

A pen and brown ink drawing with brown wash shows four figures standing in arched niches labeled Musica, Architettura, Pittura, and Scultura, with a small dancing figure and labels in the center. The sheet is cream paper with scattered handwritten notes.

Artist

Felice Giani

Date

1816

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over traces of graphite on cream laid paper

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

4000 × 1995 px

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