Feast of Pan
n.d.
Medium
Etching, fourth state
Dimensions
sheet: 11 x 16 5/8 in. (28 x 42.2 cm) image: 9 3/4 x 15 1/2 in. (24.8 x 39.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1977
Accession Number
1977.588.5
Tags
Art Historical Context
Claude Gillot’s *Feast of Pan* captures a lively mythological gathering centered on the goat-legged god Pan, surrounded by satyrs and nude figures in a wooded setting. Created as an etching in its fourth state, the print reveals the artist’s refined line work and tonal gradations, techniques that allowed Gillot to suggest movement and texture across the sheet. Measuring roughly 10 by 15½ inches in the image area, the composition balances energetic revelry with careful orchestration of figures, typical of early-eighteenth-century French printmaking. Gillot, active in Paris during the waning ye...
About the Artist
Claude Gillot · 1673–1722
Artist known for his elegant designs done in the Rococo manner of Audran; also for his predilection for scenes from the 'comedia dell'arte.' Few paintings survive; his work is known mainly through drawings and etchings. Comment on works: Genre; History