Pan spying of the nymph Syrinx who is seated on a rock, combing her hair
Medium
Engraving with Pan's erect penis inexpertly scratched off surface of print
Dimensions
10 9/16 x 6 7/8 in. (26.8 x 17.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Accession Number
49.97.113
Tags
About the Artist
Marcantonio Raimondi|Marco Dente|Giulio Romano · 1475–1534
Marcantonio Raimondi (c. 1480–1534), born near Bologna, Italy, emerged as one of the Renaissance's premier engravers, revolutionizing printmaking through his mastery of reproductive techniques. He trained in the workshop of the goldsmith, painter, and niellist Francesco Francia, whose influence is evident in his early engravings, such as the goldsmith-like shading in *Pyramus and Thisbe* (1505), h...