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Pan Reclining before a Large Vase
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione1645–47
- Attribution
- Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione Italian, 1609-1664
- Medium
- Etching on paper
- Physical dimensions
- Sheet: 11.5 × 21.4 cm (4 9/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Morris Woolf
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The Baroque Italian etcher and innovator par excellence, Castiglione employed his signature flourish in this oblong view of revelers regaining their strength after a bacchanal. The god Pan lies entangled with empty wine vessels; lightly stroking his panpipes as if to play, he gazes at an enormous ancient funerary vessel on a raised plinth.
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