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| Felice Giani Apollo and Python ca. 1796-98 drawing, with watercolor Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Felice Giani Apollo and Marsyas ca. 1796-98 drawing, with watercolor Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Felice Giani Five Caryatids ca. 1800-1820 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Felice Giani Roman Sarcophagus in the Vatican Museum ca. 1820 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
"Felice Giani worked in many Italian cities throughout his long career. He was trained by Carlo Bianchi and Antonio Galli Bibiena in Pavia and in 1778 moved to Bologna to study with Domenico Pedrini and Ubaldo Gandolfi. He spent the years between 1780 and 1786 in Rome studying with Pompeo Batoni, Giuseppe Antolini, and Christoph Unterberger at the Accademia di San Luca. . . . Giani established himself as an important decorative painter; he contributed to projects in Forli, Venice, Ravenna, Ariccia, Bologna Faenza, and Rome. He had an international clientele and worked for Catherine II of Russia in 1788 and in Paris for Napoleon at the Tuilleries and Malmaison in 1803. In 1805 he settled more or less permanently in Rome."
– from biographical notes at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
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| Felice Giani Column Capital with Figures 1820 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Felice Giani Judgment of Paris ca. 1800-1820 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Felice Giani Cupids in Clouds ca. 1800 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Felice Giani Sheet of Decorative Studies ca. 1810-14 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Felice Giani Four Putti making Music after Ludovico Carracci and Entombment after Lucio Massari ca. 1820-21 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Felice Giani Madonna and Child after Ludovico Carracci 1815 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Felice Giani Study of Antique Statue ca. 1820 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Felice Giani Calliope - Muse of Eloquence ca. 1800-1820 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Felice Giani Thalia - Muse of Comedy ca. 1800-1820 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Felice Giani Melpomene - Muse of Tragedy ca. 1800-1820 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |