The Birth (La Naissance): in a forest, the new mother resting in a hammock at center, the newborn below her to left, various satyrs and goats surrounding, from 'The lives of satyrs' (La vie des satyres)
Claude Gillot|Jean Audran
ca. 1700–1720
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 10 3/8 x 13 11/16 in. (26.4 x 34.8 cm) plate: 10 1/16 x 13 3/8 in. (25.6 x 34 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.373.3
Tags
SatyrsGoatsForestsBirthCrowd
About the Artist
Claude Gillot|Jean Audran · 1673–1722
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