# Study for Painting, Mount Olympus, in The Italian Settecento

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

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