Study for a Painting on Theme of Callistoca. 1750
Three figures of putti flying: one carrying a fish, one a goose, and the other shooting with bow and arrow at a bird; separate study of a hand and floating drapery in upper left. More about this work
About this work
Three figures of putti flying: one carrying a fish, one a goose, and the other shooting with bow and arrow at a bird; separate study of a hand and floating drapery in upper left.
Text from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
What you’re looking at
STUDY FOR A PAINTING ON THEME OF CALLISTO
Description from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
How it was made
- Charcoal
- Burnt willow or vine. It smudges and wipes away easily, which made it the natural tool for working out a composition.
- Pen and ink
- Drawn with a quill or reed pen, often with wash added by brush to model light and shadow.
- Laid paper
- Handmade on a mould of close-set wires, which leave fine parallel lines you can see when the sheet is held to the light.
Filippo Falciatore
Italian
Rights and the museum’s record
Public domain. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has dedicated this image to the public domain under CC0, so anyone may copy, adapt and use it, for any purpose, without asking. Our prints and files are reproductions made from the museum’s image; the museum doesn’t endorse them.
- Object number
- 1938-88-8120
- Credit
- Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Type
- Drawing
- Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Licence
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Museum record
- See it on the museum’s site
