Pan Reclining before a Large Vase

Prints and Drawings

1645–47

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
Italian, 1609-1664

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. The god Pan lies entangled with empty wine vessels; lightly stroking his panpipes as if to play, he gazes at an enormous ancient funerary vessel on a raised plinth.

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Artist: Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
Title: Pan Reclining before a Large Vase
Place: Italy (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.: Made 1645–1647
Medium: Etching on paper
Dimensions: Sheet: 11.5 × 21.4 cm (4 9/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Morris Woolf
Reference Number: 1941.410
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