Satyr's Family

c. 1503/1504

Jacopo de' Barbari

Associated Names
Jacopo de' Barbari

Artist, Venetian, c. 1460/1470 - 1516 or before

The scene shows a faun-like figure playing a stringed instrument next to a woman who is holding a small child. The faun has goat-like legs, cloven hooves, a human torso, sharp facial features, a beard, and small horns. He has curly hair. The woman has soft features and wears a head wrap. She is reclined on a grassy mound, holding the child close to her chest. The background is simple with sketched lines indicating a natural setting and sparse vegetation. A caduceus symbol is drawn in the top right corner.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 8.4 x 7.9 cm (3 5/16 x 3 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.939

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hind 'Engravings', Vol. 5, p.154, no. 19

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1933

  • An Exhibition of Prints from the Collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 1933, no. 36.

1973

  • Prints of the Italian Renaissance, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1973, no. 262.

Bibliography

1938

  • Hind, Arthur M. Early Italian Engraving; a critical catalogue with complete reproductions of all the prints described. 7 vols. London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 1938-1948.

1973

  • Levenson et al. 1973, no.140.

Watermarks

present but not identified

Wikidata ID

Q64958530

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