# Study for Painting, Mount Olympus, in 18th-century Italy

Vito D'Anna painted this in 1750–60, aged 32. It is now at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York.

From the museum's label:

> Vertical rectangle. Hermes flying alongside Bacchus and an unidentified goddess seated in the clouds. Apollo and a muse, who holds a plumb-level, are seated on the row of clouds beneath them. Hercules is visible in the distance. Several putti are scattered amongst the gods in the clouds.

_Text from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum._

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## The work

- Date: 1750–60
- Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, white gouache on cream laid paper
- Dimensions: 45.6 x 27.1 cm (17 15/16 x 10 11/16 in.)
- Type: Drawing
- Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 1938-88-7331
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Vito D'Anna](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/vito-d-anna), Italian, 1718–1769

1 works in the collection.

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