A satyr reclining at the foot of a staute of Priapus, goats at the right
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) Italian
Not on view
Although this work was etched in Castiglione’s native Genoa, the concentration on a mythological subject in a large lush landscape exposes the influence of the French painter Nicolas Poussin, whom the artist likely met while working in Rome in the 1630s.
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