Cleveland Museum of Art
Venus and a Satyr
Ignaz Elhafen
- Date
- c. 1700
- Medium
- ivory
- Culture
- Germany, late 17th-early 18th Century
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Elhafen depicted mythological scenes in many small ivory reliefs intended for domestic decoration. As with any work in ivory, the size of the tusk dictated this relief’s scale.
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