Horizontal Panel Design with Four Hybrid Male Figures 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 with a male figure in the middle, seen from the back, whose lower body consists of rinceaux which meander across the page. He looks left, into the eyes of a fantastical creature with a grotesque head springing forth from one of the rinceaux. Surrounding him are three more male hybrid creatures whose lower bodies similarly consist out of acanthus rinceaux or leaves.

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