The Four Festivals
Claude Gillot (French, 1673–1722)
c. 1693–1715
Medium
etching and engraving
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
In memory of Jane Millar Harris and John H. Harris
Accession Number
1985.97
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
male
About this artwork
This depiction of the festival of Diana, Roman goddess of forests and animals, accompanies three other scenes glorifying the nature gods Faunus, Bacchus, and Pan. In each print a frame of flourishing vegetation surrounds nude and semi-nude figures who frolic around an altar with a bust to the god. The caption below the Festival of Diana declares that this celebration is being "troubled by satyrs," whose muscular, goat-legged bodies and leering faces appear at either edge of the wooded grove.