Satyr

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Medium

chalk manner printed in red on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 55.6 x 39 cm (21 7/8 x 15 3/8 in.)

sheet: 67 x 50 cm (26 3/8 x 19 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ellwanger/Mescha Collection, in honor of Margaret Morgan Grasselli

Catalogue Raisonné

Leymarie 1896, no. 31

Accession Number

2006.163.2

Artists / Makers

Gilles Demarteau the Elder (artist) French, 1722 - 1776

René Michel Slodtz (artist after) French, 1705 - 1764

Annibale Carracci (artist after) Bolognese, 1560 - 1609

Image Use

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Inscription

upper right in image: 31; lower left in image: Dessiné a Rome / par Michel Ange / Slodtz / Dapres Annibale Carache; lower center in image: A Paris Rue de la Pelterie a la Cloche; lower right in image: De Marteau laine sculpsit C.P.R.; by later hand, lower right in ink: No 2 1/2; lower center in graphite: T. 31

Provenance

Grossherzliches Museum, Schwerin (Lugt 2273). Mr. Gregory Mescha and Mr. Thompson Ellwanger, Washington, DC; gift to NGA, 2006.

Associated Names

Bergquist, James A., Mr.
Ellwanger III and Mr. Gregory E. Mescha, A. Thompson, Mr.
Grossherzogliches Museum

Exhibition History

2008: Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 70.

Bibliography

1896: Leymarie, L. de. L'Oeuvre de Gilles Demarteau l'aine graveur du roi, catalogue descriptif. Paris: Georges Rapilly, 1896: no. 31.