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Muse of Classical Antiquity
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WMET0226
This Met x Wendover Art Group design is a reproduction of an original work of art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
An Artist and His Model Felice Giani (Italian, 1758–1823)
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, on gray-brown washed paper; 17 1/2 x 12 1/16 in.; 1778–1823
Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880 80.3.109
Giani is one of the preeminent Italian exponents the Neoclassical style that flourished in Europe in the early 18th century. This masterful drawing of a painter from classical antiquity in his studio may depict the celebrated Greek artist Apelles executing a portrait of the beautiful Campaspe, mistress of Alexander the Great. According to the Roman historian Pliny the Elder, Alexander was so taken with the result that he kept the portrait, but awarded Campaspe herself to Apelles in gratitude. Apelles was an apposite, classical model for the painter’s profession.
This Met x Wendover Art Group design is a reproduction of an original work of art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
An Artist and His Model Felice Giani (Italian, 1758–1823)
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, on gray-brown washed paper; 17 1/2 x 12 1/16 in.; 1778–1823
Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880 80.3.109
Giani is one of the preeminent Italian exponents the Neoclassical style that flourished in Europe in the early 18th century. This masterful drawing of a painter from classical antiquity in his studio may depict the celebrated Greek artist Apelles executing a portrait of the beautiful Campaspe, mistress of Alexander the Great. According to the Roman historian Pliny the Elder, Alexander was so taken with the result that he kept the portrait, but awarded Campaspe herself to Apelles in gratitude. Apelles was an apposite, classical model for the painter’s profession.
