Satyr's Family from Bacchanales, or Satyr's Games

Prints and Drawings

1763

Jean Honoré Fragonard
French, 1732-1806

This set of four etchings may refer to ancient bas-reliefs Fragonard saw while visiting Rome with an important antiquarian, the Abbé de Saint Non (see 1926.453, .455, and .456). The size of the paired oval and rectangular reliefs—one or more of which might derive from ancient engraved cameos instead of large-scale sculptures—remains ambiguous, although hidden objects in the surrounding foliage suggest a large scale. Regardless of their source, the popularity of Fragonard’s printed reliefs reflected the taste for Neoclassicism in France at this time.

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jean Honoré Fragonard
Title: Satyr's Family from Bacchanales, or Satyr's Games
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1763
Medium: Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: Image: 13.2 × 20.3 cm (5 1/4 × 8 in.); Sheet: 14.5 × 21.3 cm (5 3/4 × 8 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Print and Drawing Club
Reference Number: 1926.454
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