Minneapolis Institute of Art
Silenus
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
- Date
- 1838
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Department
- European Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
In Greek and Roman mythology, Silenus is the faithful friend and teacher of the wine god Dionysus. On Corot's canvas, he is the butt of a joke, awakening from his drunken stupor to find that his fellow revelers have tied him up with his own garlands and painted his face red with mulberries. A good sport, he joins in the laughter and all is forgiven. The picture is an excellent example of historical landscape painting, a genre popularized by Nicholas Poussin, a French artist from the 1600s, in which mythological or Biblical scenes play out in idyllic settings. France, Europe
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