Design for a Ceiling: Venice Receiving Homage

1755–60

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray-green and blue-gray wash, over black chalk
Dimensions: 11 7/8 x 8 1/16in. (30.2 x 20.5cm)
Collection no.: 62.121.2
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Gaspare Diziani. Design for a Ceiling: Venice Receiving Homage. Gaspare Diziani; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rogers Fund, 1962. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Design for a Ceiling: Venice Receiving Homage — Gaspare Diziani. 1755–60.

Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray-green and blue-gray wash, over black chalk. Dimensions: 11 7/8 x 8 1/16in. (30.2 x 20.5cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1962.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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