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The Four Festivals

c. 1693–1715

Claude Gillot

(French, 1673–1722)
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Culture
France, 18th century
Medium
etching and engraving
Credit Line
In memory of Jane Millar Harris and John H. Harris 1985.97
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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.
A horizontally oriented etching in black ink depicts a wooded landscape centered on a statue of Diana. Numerous women with light skin tones wearing draped clothing or partially nude surround the pedestal. From the left and right, satyrs with goatlike lower bodies move toward the group. Figures on our left struggle, while a woman on our right flees. The inscription at the bottom reads, "Feste de DIANE, troublée par des Satyres."

The Four Festivals

c. 1693–1715

Claude Gillot

(French, 1673–1722)
France, 18th century

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