A Satyr Entertaining His Family
1690s
Artist, Italian, Genoese, 1628 - 1703

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with brown wash over traces of black chalk on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 28 × 24.5 cm (11 × 9 5/8 in.)
mount: 40.6 × 32.4 cm (16 × 12 3/4 in.)
framed: 60.96 × 45.72 cm (24 × 18 in.) -
Accession
2017.84.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Maurizio Nobile, Bologna); purchased 2017 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2020
A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, 2020 (shown only in Washington, Washington venue canceled).
Inscriptions
by later hand, lower left in graphite: Domenico Piola Genovese; by later hand, center verso in red chalk: [not deciphered]; in graphite: L2
Wikidata ID
Q64541080