Pen and brown ink drawing of a youthful charioteer with billowing cloak driving two rearing horses pulling a wheeled chariot across pale paper.

Apollo Driving the Chariot of the Sun

Pen and brown ink with brown wash sketches a charioteer, likely a sun god, driving a pair of rearing horses pulling a wheeled chariot. The youthful figure leans forward holding the reins, his cloak billowing behind him, while the chariot's carved side and spoked wheel anchor the lower right of the sheet.

Artist: Perino del Vaga
Date: 1519/21
Medium: Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, and graphite, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid card
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 1134 px

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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1521).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

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