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Study for Painting: Mount Olympus
Vito D'Anna1750–1760
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Hermes flying alongside Bacchus and an unidentified goddess seated in the clouds. Apollo and a muse, who holds a plumb-level, are seated on the row of clouds beneath them. Hercules is visible in the distance. Several putti are scattered amongst the gods in the clouds.
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Details
- Title: Study for Painting: Mount Olympus
- Creator: Vito D'Anna
- Creator Lifespan: 1720/1769
- Date Created: 1750–1760
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, white gouache on cream laid paper
- Provenance: Giovanni Piancastelli; Mrs. Edward D. Brandegee
- Inscribed: On verso in pen and brown ink: "Vito d'Anna"
- Exhibitions: New York, NY- Finh College Museum of Art, "The Two Sicilies: Drawings from the Cooper-hewitt museums," 4 Feb. - 20 March 1970.
- Dimensions: 45.6 x 27.1 cm (17 15/16 x 10 11/16 in.)
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