Art, literature & history
Satan Rides and Drives the World
1882
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- charcoal and white chalk on gray paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 23.6 × 36 cm (9 5/16 × 14 3/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2014.52.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Francesco Paolo Michetti. Satan Rides and Drives the World. Francesco Paolo Michetti; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Francesco_Paolo_Michetti,_Satan_Rides_and_Drives_the_World,_1882,_NGA_164382.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Satan Rides and Drives the World — Francesco Paolo Michetti. 1882.
Medium: charcoal and white chalk on gray paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 23.6 × 36 cm (9 5/16 × 14 3/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2014.52.1. Purchased as the Gift of Dian Woodner.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.