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Ceiling Design Depicting Iris and the Rainbow
Felice Giani1810–25
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Circular composition. Iris flies above a thunderstorm with arms extended. Beside her at left flies a putto with leaves in his hands; at right, two wind deities blow clouds.
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Details
- Title: Ceiling Design Depicting Iris and the Rainbow
- Creator: Felice Giani
- Creator Lifespan: 1758/1823
- Date Created: 1810–25
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Museum purchase through gift of various donors
- Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and watercolor on off-white laid paper
- Provenance: Ex-collection Giovanni Piancastelli, Rome.
- Paper Support: Off-white laid paper
- Inscribed: Lower margin, center: ? Gride Arcobaleno
- Exhibitions: London, England - Victoria & Albert Museum, An American Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Designs from the Cooper-Hewwitt Collection, June 3 - August 12, 1973, no. 83; Brooklyn, NY - The Brooklyn Museum, December 18, 1973 - February 3, 1974.Cleveland, OH, Cleveland Museum of Art, Neo-classicism: Style and Motif, September 21 - November 1, 1964, no. 157.New York, NY - Cooper Union Museum, Extravagant Drawings of the Eighteenth Century, 1962, no. 32.
- Dimensions: 32.5 x 29.8 cm (12 13/16 x 11 3/4 in.)
- Bibliography: Richard Wunder, Extravagant Drawings of the Eighteenth Century (New York: Lambert-Spector, Inc., 1962): p. 98, no. 32 (illus.).Henry Hawley, Neo-classicism: Style and Motif (Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art,1964): no. 157 (illlus.).Richard Wunder, An American Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Designs from the Cooper-Hewwitt Collection (London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1973): p.37, no. 83 (illus.).
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