Design for a Ceiling: Allegories of the Four Continents

1725

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Brush and gray wash, over graphite or lead; framing lines in pen and black ink. Four sections of paper, two center parts joined together
Dimensions: 57-5/16 x 20-9/16 in. (145.6 x 52.2 cm)
Collection no.: 59.208.107
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini. Design for a Ceiling: Allegories of the Four Continents. Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde, 1959. 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: Allegories of the Four Continents — Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini. 1725.

Medium: Brush and gray wash, over graphite or lead; framing lines in pen and black ink. Four sections of paper, two center parts joined together. Dimensions: 57-5/16 x 20-9/16 in. (145.6 x 52.2 cm).

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

Credit line: Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde, 1959.

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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