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Festival of the God Pan, Celebrated by the Sylvans

A work made of etching on paper.
CC0 Public Domain Designation

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  • A work made of etching on paper.

Date:

n.d.

Artist:

Claude Gillot
French, 1673-1722

About this artwork

Claude Gillot made his reputation as a painter of bacchanals, but his original oils are lost. As in the Festival of Bacchus etching (1969.282, from the same series as this work), a woodland host pays melodic homage with panpipes and cymbals to a sculptural bust: here Bacchus’s leering, horned attendant, Pan. The poem below this ensemble praises Pan’s magical effects on the bounding goats of the fields and the protection he provides to his flock of sheep. Other reasons for celebration include Pan’s tutelage of the spirits of the wood in the musical seduction of nymphs, and his inspiration to lusty shepherds pursuing their shepherdesses.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Claude Gillot

Title

Festival of the God Pan, Celebrated by the Sylvans

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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Artist's working dates 1693–1722

Medium

Etching on paper

Dimensions

Image: 17.4 × 35.9 cm (6 7/8 × 14 3/16 in.); Plate: 22 × 37.4 cm (8 11/16 × 14 3/4 in.); Sheet: 29.5 × 46.2 cm (11 5/8 × 18 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Potter Palmer Collection Fund

Reference Number

1969.280

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