Satyrs Preparing for a Festival

Satyrs Preparing for a Festival by Claude Gillot

Medium

Pen, brown and black ink, over black chalk with pink wash; framing lines in pen and brown ink

Dimensions

6 1/4 x 8 1/2 in. (15.8 x 21.6 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1961

Accession Number

61.127.2

Tags

SatyrsTrees

About the Artist

Claude Gillot · 16731722

Artist known for his elegant designs done in the Rococo manner of Audran; also for his predilection for scenes from the 'comedia dell'arte.' Few paintings survive; his work is known mainly through drawings and etchings. Comment on works: Genre; History

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