About the Artwork
Female Figure (Geography?) with a Lyre, Globe, Maps, and Cupid
between 1758 and 1823
Felice Giani
1758-1823
Italian
Unknown
Pen and brown ink and gray wash over black chalk on buff antique laid paper
Sheet: 6 1/4 × 9 1/4 inches (15.9 × 23.5 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of James E. Scripps
94.3SDR130
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Markings
Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower left center: A257777 Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower right center: F. Giani
Provenance
J.J. Peoli (New York, New York, USA)
May 8, 1894, sold by (American Art Association, New York, New York, USA) no. 273. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1894-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, p. 112, no. 53.
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Felice Giani, Female Figure (Geography?) with a Lyre, Globe, Maps, and Cupid, between 1758 and 1823, pen and brown ink and gray wash over black chalk on buff antique laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of James E. Scripps, 94.3SDR130.
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