Festival of Fawn, God of the Forests

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Festival of Fawn, God of the Forests

Claude Gillot; Workshop: Chez P. de RochefortLinkedCulture matchlcp-ee32acfb7ec3

Date
c. 1740
Medium
Etching
Department
European Art
Institution
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Object ID
42714

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Fauns are the Roman versions of satyrs, which originally came from Greece. At first there were distinctions between the two, satyrs having human feet and fauns having goats' hooves, but eventually the two terms became interchangeable. Claude Gillot loved raucous subjects and was known for his images of Wild Things. France, Europe

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The Ethel Morrison Van Derlip Fund

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