Satyr Resting beneath a Herm
<p>The Baroque Italian etcher and innovator par excellence, Castiglione employed his signature flourish in this oblong view of revelers regaining their strength after a bacchanal. A satyr sets himself down on the steps below a portly herm, likely a depiction of Pan: the flock of goats on the right attentively raise their heads toward the sculpture as if awaiting orders.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1645
- Medium
- Etching on paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 11.8 × 21.3 cm (4 11/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist
Painting
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione was an Italian Baroque painter, printmaker and draftsman, of the Genoese school. He is best known now for his etchings, and as the inventor of the printmaking technique of monotyping. He was known as Il Grechetto in Italy and in France as Le Benédette.
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More by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
Raising of Lazarus (recto); Travelers with Cart Outside Inn (verso)
1700 · Pen and black ink, and red chalk, with brush and gray wash (recto), and brush and black ink and black wash (verso), on cream wove paper
Bacchanal Before a Herm
1660 · oil and red-brown pigment
Pan and Olympus
1655 · etching on laid paper
David with the Head of Goliath
1655 · monotype in brown oil pigment on laid paper
La Mèlancolie
1655 · etching
Noah and the Animals Entering the Ark
1650 · Etching on ivory paper
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- 1645
- Medium
- Etching on paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 11.8 × 21.3 cm (4 11/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1645-037070
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- verified