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Pan reclincing near a large vase set in a landscape

ca. 1645
Not on view
In the 1640s, Castiglione produced a group of etchings that bring to life the world of Theocritus' 'Idylls' and Virgil's 'Eclogues', in which Pan is frequently invoked as lord of the flocks and patron of pastoral poetry. In this etching, the resting god, wearing his usual crown of pine, receives a second crown of grape leaves. The volcano must be Etna, for the rustic verse of both the Greek Theocritus (ca. 300–260 B.C.) and the Roman Virgil (70–19 B.C.) is set in Sicily.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Pan reclincing near a large vase set in a landscape
  • Artist: Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) (Italian, Genoa 1609–1664 Mantua)
  • Date: ca. 1645
  • Medium: Etching
  • Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed to plate line): 4 1/2 × 8 3/8 in. (11.4 × 21.2 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
  • Object Number: 17.50.17-464
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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