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The Four Festivals

Date unknown
(French, 1673–1722)
France, 18th century
etching and engraving
In memory of Jane Millar Harris and John H. Harris 1985.97
Location: not on view
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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.
The Four Festivals

The Four Festivals

Date unknown

Claude Gillot

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

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