Satyr carrying a nymph restraining her right arm
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 7 1/2 × 4 3/4 in. (19 × 12.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926
Accession Number
26.50.1(126)
Tags
NymphsSatyrs
About the Artist
Marco Dente|Anonymous, Italian, 16th to early 17th century · 1515–1527
Marco Dente (died 1527), also known as Marco da Ravenna, was among the most accomplished printmakers working in Rome during the High Renaissance, a period that witnessed an extraordinary flowering of engraving as both a reproductive and an independent artistic medium. Little is known of his early training, but by the second decade of the sixteenth century he had established himself in the orbit of...