Apollo Driving the Chariot of the Sun

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Apollo Driving the Chariot of the Sun

Lelio OrsiLinkedCulture matchlcp-a160aa8498da

Date
1544/45
Medium
Pen and black ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with white opaque watercolor, with incising, on cream laid paper prepared with a light brown wash, laid down on thick laid paper
Culture
Italy
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
244910

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As the heroic sun god Apollo drives his four-horse chariot (the semicircle of the sun directly behind him), Aurora, goddess of the dawn, strews flowers in his path, announcing his—and the new day’s—arrival. Lelio Orsi’s drawing is a final preparatory sketch for an illusionistic outdoor fresco (now lost) on the clock tower in the central square of the northern Italian city of Reggio Emilia. Orsi was so successful in suggesting the god’s powerful forward thrust that Apollo looks as if he is about to leap from his chariot and out of the picture plane. Orsi derived his heroic, classicizing graphic style primarily from Michelangelo.

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Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
Provenance
Sir William Forbes, 7th Baronet of Pitsligo (1773–1820), Fettercairn, Kincardineshire, possibly acquired through James Irvine (1757–1831); by descent to his son, Sir John Stuart Hepburn-Forbes, 8th Baronet of Pitsligo (1804–1866); by inheritance to his son-in-law, Charles Trefusis, 20th Baron Clinton (1834–1904); by descent; sold, Sotheby’s, New York, Jan. 25, 2017, lot 9, through François Borne to the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.

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