Horizontal Panel Design with a Three Androgynous Figures and a Sphinx Combined with 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 with three androgynous figures whose lower bodies consist of meandering acanthus rinceaux. On the top right a fourth creature, a sphinx with a human, similarly androgynous face is depicted.

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