Satyr and Mercury Shooting at a Statue
Pierre Brebiette
1626
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 7.5 × 26.1 cm (2 15/16 × 10 1/4 in.) sheet: 8.6 × 27.2 cm (3 3/8 × 10 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
2015.44.28
About the Artist
Pierre Brebiette · 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...