The Four Festivals:  Festival of Diana

Description

This depiction of the festival of Diana, Roman goddess of forests and animals, accompanies three other scenes glorifying the nature gods Faunus, Bacchus, and Pan. In each print a frame of flourishing vegetation surrounds nude and semi-nude figures who frolic around an altar with a bust to the god. The caption below the Festival of Diana declares that this celebration is being "troubled by satyrs," whose muscular, goat-legged bodies and leering faces appear at either edge of the wooded grove.

Provenance

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The Four Festivals: Festival of Diana

Claude Gillot

c. 1693–1715

Accession Number

1985.97.1

Medium

etching and engraving

Dimensions

N/A

Classification

Print

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

In memory of Jane Millar Harris and John H. Harris