Procession of draped female dancers, women bearing baskets, and male musicians, at right a satyr lies bound on a pyre, 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 3/8 in. (7.5 x 26.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.251.3
Tags
WomenDancingSatyrsDancersMusicians
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...