Apollo in his Chariot Transforms Night into Day

A horizontal drawing in brown and gray wash shows Apollo driving a four-horse chariot through clouds above a shadowed landscape at left. Putti and cherubs float in the sky, while reclining figures and a classical urn sit among foliage in the lower left.

Artist

Jean-Baptiste Huet

Date

ca. 1800

Medium

Pen and brown (bistre) ink, brush and gray wash, pale orange watercolor, black chalk [?] on cream laid paper

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

3999 × 1431 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum