Title: Illusionistic Ceiling with a Grape Arbor, Figures Poised on Galleries, and a Central Scene of Olympian Gods
Creator: Italian 16th Century
Date Created: c. 1580/1590
Physical Dimensions: overall: 39.7 x 26.6 cm (15 5/8 x 10 1/2 in.)
Provenance: The painter Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson, Paris (1767-1824); by descent in the Girodet-Trioson family; Philippe Huart; (Emmanuel Moatti, Paris); purchased by NGA, 1994.
Medium:pen and brown ink with brown wash, heightened with white, over black chalk on brown paper (sheet enlarged at right and bottom by the artist)
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