Design for Ceiling: Apollo and the Hours
Medium
Pen and black ink, brush and gray ink, brown wash, watercolor, over black chalk
Dimensions
Image (diameter): 11 5/16 in. (28.8cm) Sheet: 12 7/8 x 12 15/16 in (32.7 x 32.8 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and The Elisha Whittelsey Funds; and Gift of John Sise, by exchange, 1958
Accession Number
58.635.6
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About the Artist
Angelica Kauffmann|Giovanni Battista Cipriani · 1741–1807
Swiss painter and etcher, and one of the few women artists of the time working in the Neo-Classical style to specialize in both portraits and subject pictures. Her famous sitters include the family of George III in Britain, Grand-Duke Paul and Prince Nikolay Yusupov in Russia, Stanislav II Poniatowski and Stanislav Kostka Potocki in Poland, Queen Caroline of Naples and Emperor Joseph II of Austria...