Festival of the God Pan, Celebrated by the Sylvans

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n.d.

Claude Gillot
French, 1673-1722

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.

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Artist: Claude Gillot
Title: Festival of the God Pan, Celebrated by the Sylvans
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.: 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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