Pan Reclining before a Large Vase

Description

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.

Pan Reclining before a Large Vase

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

1645–47

Accession Number

41616

Medium

Etching on paper

Dimensions

Sheet: 11.5 × 21.4 cm (4 9/16 × 8 7/16 in.)

Classification

etching

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Morris Woolf