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Feste de Faune, Dieu des Forests [Festival of Faun, God of the Forests], from Les quatre fêtes satyriques [The Four Satyric Festivals]
17th century
25.5 cm x 40.8 cm (10 1/16 in. x 16 1/16 in.)
Claude Gillot
(Langres, 1673 - 1722, Paris)
Primary
Object Type:
print
Artist Nationality:
Europe, French
Medium and Support:
Etching
Credit Line:
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Julie and Lawrence Salander, 2006
Accession Number:
2006.238
A painter, draftsman and prolific etcher, Gillot is best known as Watteau’s teacher. His series of fêtes satyriques are ostensibly mythological, but unusually free in invention and vague in meaning, anticipating elements of Watteau’s approach to pastoral subjects.