Minneapolis Institute of Art
Silenus
Jean-Baptiste-Camille CorotLinkedCulture matchlcp-6341674a1009
- Date
- 1838
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Department
- European Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Object ID
- 1977
From the Minneapolis Institute of Art record
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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- Credit line
- Bequest of J. Jerome Hill
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