Vase with Two Winged Satyrs
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Plate: 7 1/2 x 4 7/16 in. (19 x 11.2 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.952(9)
Tags
Art Historical Context
Behold the *Vase with Two Wing Satyrs*, a captivating late 17th-century (7 1/2 x 4 7/16 in.) from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department. This intricate print, credited to publishers and engravers like Frederick de and Claes Jansz Visscher, draws on designs possibly inspired by Renaissance masters such as Rosso Fior and Polidoro da Caravaggio. These earlier Mannerist artists were renowned for their whimsical grotesques—fantastical motifs blending human, animal, and mythical forms—that influenced decorative arts across Europe. Engraving, as the medium here, was revolut...
About the Artist
Frederick de Wit|Rosso Fiorentino|Polidoro da Caravaggio|Claes Jansz. Visscher|René Boyvin (Netherlandish|Dutch) · 1571 |1629 –1656 |1706
Netherlandish, Antwerp 1571–1656 Rotterdam|Dutch, 1629/30–1706