Composition with three figure groups: at left a woman struggles with a male assailant, at center a female satyr and male satryr sit upon a pedestal, at right putti surround two young satyrs riding a goat, from a series of twelve frieze-like designs showing bacchanals, sacrifices, and dances
Pierre Brebiette|François Langlois
ca. 1617–25
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 2 15/16 x 10 in. (7.4 x 25.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.251.11
Tags
MenWomenPuttiSatyrsGoats
About the Artist
Pierre Brebiette|François Langlois · 1598–1642
Pierre Brébiette (c. 1598–c. 1642) was a French painter and etcher whose elegant, sensuous treatment of classical mythology and allegory earned him a significant reputation in early seventeenth-century Paris. Born in Mantes-sur-Seine, Brébiette traveled to Italy as a young man and lived and worked in Rome from around 1617 to approximately 1625, absorbing the influences of ancient sculpture, Renais...