Apollo in his Chariot Transforms Night into Day
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1800
name: label: Artist
content: Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811
label: For
content: Oberkampf & Cie., (Jouy-en-Josas, France, 1759–1815)
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Apollo drives his chariot pulled by four horses across the sky. He is preceded by Dawn or Day holding torch and scattering flowers. Behind chariot are female attendants and three allegories of Night amidst stars, crowns, flying bats and owls. In lower left corner, Diana in front of a crescent moon, hovers above Endymion who sleeps on a small hill amongst trees with his dog and three sheep. In lower right corner, an ocean with castle in the distance. Flying putti, some of whom hold garlands, fill the spaces between major scenes. The textile repeat is indicated in Apollo's cloak which is partially visible in upper and lower center, and in tree which is partially visible at lower left and right edges.
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1984-97-1
objectType: label: Type
content: textile designs
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown (bistre) ink, brush and gray wash, pale orange watercolor, black chalk [?] on cream laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.3 x 92.2 cm (10 3/4 x 36 5/16 in. ), image
label: Dimensions
content: 33.3 x 97.5 cm (13 1/8 x 36 15/16 in.), sheet