The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 25, 2024
The Four Festivals: Festival of Diana
Date unknown
(French, 1673–1722)
Catalogue raisonné: Populus 1
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.- {{cite web|title=The Four Festivals: Festival of Diana|url=false|author=Claude Gillot|year=null|access-date=25 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1985.97.1