ECL-Bn.17:32-2014
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bn.17:32-2014
Object type
Identification
Title
Statue group: satyr and infant Dionysus
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Other number
Bn.17 no. 14
Description
Content (description)
The nude bearded satyr, wearing a vine wreath, leans on a high tree trunk on his left and holds in his arms a nude infant, who gestures with his left hand and points to the tree trunk with his right. A vine twists around the trunk and a skin falls over it from the satyr's arm.
Inscribed below, inside frame: S. Thomassin Graveur du Roy Sculpsit 1717.
Inscribed below: Faune/ Le Sculpteur voulant marquer le Caractere d'un Faune qui folastre, nous le represente/ tenant entre ses bras un Enfant./ Cette statue est copiee par Maziere de Pontoise d'apres l'Antique qui est une des plus/ belles figures de Rome.
Inscribed below, inside frame: S. Thomassin Graveur du Roy Sculpsit 1717.
Inscribed below: Faune/ Le Sculpteur voulant marquer le Caractere d'un Faune qui folastre, nous le represente/ tenant entre ses bras un Enfant./ Cette statue est copiee par Maziere de Pontoise d'apres l'Antique qui est une des plus/ belles figures de Rome.
Content (object)
statue
Dimensions
height (actual size): 523mm
width (actual size): 348mm
width (actual size): 348mm
Inscription
Bn.17 no. 14
Inscription description
Materials & techniques note
copper engraving on paper
Production
Person
Thomassin, Simon, ca. 1652 - 1732 (Engraver)
Date
1717
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• RS (I 169 1-3, in Louvre)