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Drawing, Alexander the Great and Diogenes
This is a Drawing. It was created by Felice Giani. It is dated 1820–22 and we acquired it in 1901. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite on thick white laid paper . It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
Rapidly rendered in seemingly effortless pen, this drawing of Alexander the Great visiting the philosopher Diogenes testifies to Giani’s strong command of classical vocabulary and visual expression, which he adapted to the tastes of his patrons. This preparatory drawing is for a series that Giani painted in the Palazzo Nagliati, in Ferrara, Italy.
Giovanni Piancastelli, a drawing teacher, collector, and curator of the Borghese collection in Rome, disposed of his drawings collection between 1901 and 1907. Using agents in Rome to preview the drawings, the Hewitt sisters recommended that the museum acquire about 3,700 mostly Italian decorative arts and architecture drawings in 1901. In 1938, the museum was able to largely reunite Piancastelli’s decorative drawings collection by acquiring about 8,700 drawings from Mrs. Edward D. Brandegee of Brookline, Massachusetts, who had originally purchased them in 1904.
It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors.
- Portrait Of Czar Alexander I (Russia)
- silk.
- Gift of Adelaide Milton de Groot.
- 1939-54-1
- Sidewall
- machine-printed on paper.
- Gift of Michael Bennett Levinson.
- 2000-25-7
- Drawing, Alexander the Great watching a Fight between his Dog, an Elephant,...
- pen and brown ink, brush and grey-brown wash on white laid paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors.
- 1901-39-2482
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- Bequest of Sarah Cooper Hewitt.
- 1931-6-125
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- block-printed on handmade paper.
- Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
- 1931-45-76
Its dimensions are
(irregular): 55.2 x 77 cm (21 3/4 x 30 5/16 in.) Mat: 71.1 x 91.4 cm (28 x 36 in.) Frame H x W x D: 81.3 x 101.6 x 2.5 cm (32 x 40 x 1 in.)
It is inscribed
In pen and brown ink, lower margin: Allesandro e Diogene.
Cite this object as
Drawing, Alexander the Great and Diogenes; Felice Giani (Italian, 1758–1823); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite on thick white laid paper ; (irregular): 55.2 x 77 cm (21 3/4 x 30 5/16 in.) Mat: 71.1 x 91.4 cm (28 x 36 in.) Frame H x W x D: 81.3 x 101.6 x 2.5 cm (32 x 40 x 1 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors; 1901-39-3346
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Hewitt Sisters Collect.
