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Drawing, Ceiling Design Depicting Iris and the Rainbow
This is a Drawing. It was designed by Felice Giani. It is dated 1810–25 and we acquired it in 1901. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and watercolor on off-white laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
Giani specialized in decorative ensembles for northern and central Italian homes. Iris, goddess of the rainbow, would be an ideal subject for a ceiling. This sheet was likely presented to a client for approval before the concept was transferred to a painted surface.
This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled Iris and the Rainbow.
It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors.
- Mural, Dutch Clouds
- digital print on cellulose, latex, nylon substrate.
- Gift of Maharam.
- 2012-11-2-1/5
- Drawing, Rainbow over a Hilly Landscape
- brush and oil paint on canvas.
- Gift of Louis P. Church.
- 1917-4-1323
- Poster, The Rainbow to Europe
- offset lithograph on paper.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-124-b
Our curators have highlighted 3 objects that are related to this one.
- Frieze, Serpentine
- hand-folded and dyed japanese paper.
- Gift of Barbara White.
- 2000-64-43
- Woodblock Print, Okazaki, Tenshin Bridge, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the...
- woodblock print (ukiyo-e) on mulberry paper (washi) .
- Gift of Mary Rutherford Jay.
- 1948-134-39
- Sidewall (USA)
- machine-printed paper.
- Gift of Philadelphia Museum of Art.
- 1971-58-8-a,b
Its dimensions are
33.5 x 30.8 cm (13 3/16 x 12 1/8 in.) Mat: 32.5 x 29.8 cm (12 13/16 x 11 3/4 in.) Frame H x W x D: 39.7 x 50.2 x 2.5 cm (15 5/8 in. x 19 3/4 in. x 1 in.)
It is inscribed
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower margin, center: Iride Arcobaleno.
Cite this object as
Drawing, Ceiling Design Depicting Iris and the Rainbow; Designed by Felice Giani (Italian, 1758–1823); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and watercolor on off-white laid paper; 33.5 x 30.8 cm (13 3/16 x 12 1/8 in.) Mat: 32.5 x 29.8 cm (12 13/16 x 11 3/4 in.) Frame H x W x D: 39.7 x 50.2 x 2.5 cm (15 5/8 in. x 19 3/4 in. x 1 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors; 1901-39-1807
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Hewitt Sisters Collect.
