Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
Italian, 1609-1664
Pan Reclining before a Large Vase
INV-4161
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
Italian, 1609-16641645–47
Pan Reclining before a Large Vase
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione Italian, 1609-1664 →etchingprint
Date
1645–47
Medium
Etching on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 11.5 × 21.4 cm (4 9/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Morris Woolf
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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