Felice Giani San Sebastiano Curone 1758 - 1823 Rome

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Description

Felice Giani
a ceiling design with scenes from the life of paris, and studies of putti
bears inscriptions in black chalk beneath each scene: Giudizio di Paride; Ratto d'elena; Paride fra pastori; Nozze di Peleo; Paride bambino portato a pastori sul monte ida;
pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk

Provenance

Sale, London, Sotheby's, 23 March 1971, lot 221 (as Circle of Felice Giani)

Catalogue Note

Felice Giani trained in Bologna with Domenico Pedrini and Ubaldo Gandolfi, before studying under Pompeo Batoni at the Accademia di San Luca, Rome. He worked chiefly as a decorative painter, and gained commissions in Rome at the Altieri, Quirinale and Palazzo di Spagna, amongst other projects in Bologna, Venice and elsewhere in Emilia and Romagna. This design takes as its subject five episodes from the life of Paris, from The Iliad, a theme which Giani used in his decorations for Palazzo Altieri, but with an alternate composition.

For further information on the artist, see P. Dearborn Massar, 'Felice Giani Drawings at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum', Master Drawings, vol. XIV, 1976, no. 4, pp. 396-420.