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Satyr's Family from Bacchanales, or Satyr's Games

Jean-Honoré FragonardLinkedCulture matchlcp-33805e8f7da5

Date: 1763
Medium: Etching on ivory laid paper
Culture: France
Department: Prints and Drawings
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 28683

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This set of four etchings may refer to ancient bas-reliefs Fragonard saw while visiting Rome with an important antiquarian, the Abbé de Saint Non (see 1926.453, .455, and .456). The size of the paired oval and rectangular reliefs—one or more of which might derive from ancient engraved cameos instead of large-scale sculptures—remains ambiguous, although hidden objects in the surrounding foliage suggest a large scale. Regardless of their source, the popularity of Fragonard’s printed reliefs reflected the taste for Neoclassicism in France at this time.

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Credit line: Gift of the Print and Drawing Club

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Object type: AAT300041273

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