Horizontal Panel Design with a Man fighting a Sphinx and a Fantastical Creature Interspersed between Acanthus Rinceaux

Polifilo Giancarli|Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 17th century

17th century (first half) · Pen and brown ink over leadpoint · Drawings and Prints

Design for a horizontal panel filled with a meandering acanthus rinceau. In the middle a male figure, whose lower body consists of acanthus leaves, fights with a sphinx-like creature with a male human face. Above them is the head of a snake-like creature with a head shaped like a bird.

Artist

Polifilo Giancarli|Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 17th century

Date

17th century (first half)

Medium

Pen and brown ink over leadpoint

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1962