
Satyr with Club and Seven Figures, from "Bacchanals and Histories"
1744 · Etching
Plate: 11 1/4 × 15 3/8 in. (28.5 × 39 cm)
Sheet: 14 5/16 × 17 13/16 in. (36.4 × 45.3 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Francesco Fontebasso was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period of Venice. He first apprenticed with Sebastiano Ricci, but was strongly influenced by his contemporary, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. In 1761, Fontebasso visited Saint Petersburg and produced ceiling paintings and decorations for the Winter Palace. Fontebasso returned to Venice in 1768. He helped decorate a chapel in San Francesco della Vigna.
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