Five boys, two satyrs, and a goat (copy in reverse)

Five boys, two satyrs, and a goat (copy in reverse) by Wenceslaus Hollar|Pieter van Avont

Medium

Etching and engraving

Dimensions

Plate: 5 1/8 × 7 13/16 in. (13 × 19.9 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951

Accession Number

51.501.1393

Tags

BoysMale NudesSatyrsGoats

About the Artist

Wenceslaus Hollar|Pieter van Avont · 16071677

Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) was a prolific Bohemian etcher who became one of the most accomplished printmakers of the seventeenth century. Born in Prague, he trained under Matthäus Merian in Frankfurt before entering the service of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, in 1636. Hollar spent most of his career in England, where he produced approximately 2,740 etchings documenting an extraordinary range...

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