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The Four Festivals

c. 1693–1715

Claude Gillot

(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

Description

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.
  • Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1985.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 73, no. 2 (February 1986): 26–71. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 67, no. 134-137 www.jstor.org
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