Hercules and Iole, pen and ink drawing by Felice Giani

Pen and brown ink on light blue paper shows a bearded man with a lion skin and club seated beside a woman in flowing drapery, while a winged cupid crouches at right. A curtained interior opens onto a distant landscape with a small figure near steps, and a faint handwritten inscription runs along the lower edge.

Artist

Felice Giani

Date

1813

Medium

Pen and brown ink on light blue paper

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

2942 × 2165 px

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