Pan Reclining before a Large Vase
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
1645–1647
- Medium
- Etching on paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 11.5 × 21.4 cm (4 9/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
- Genre
- etching
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingetchingpaper (fiber product)
About
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.
