Aurora Riding in Her Chariot

A pen and brown ink drawing with wash shows a woman seated on billowing clouds, lifting a torch above her head. Rearing horses pull a chariot at right, and small winged figures tumble among the clouds below.

Look closer: Small cherub-like figures tumble among the clouds in the lower left corner.

Artist

Andrea Appiani

Date

1754–1817

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3221 × 2074 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, General Atlantic Corporation and Christina Turčić Latrowski. Gifts, in memory of Lawrence Turčić, 1988