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Nymph Astride a Satyr

Jean-Honoré Fragonard1763

Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University

Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States

  • Title: Nymph Astride a Satyr
  • Creator: Jean-Honoré Fragonard
  • Date Created: 1763
  • Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate: “Frago”
  • Set or Series Title: Bacchanales
  • Print State: First of two states
  • Object Type: Prints, works of art
  • Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
  • Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1937
  • Materials & Techniques: Etching on laid paper
  • Keywords: mythology
  • Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
  • Dimensions: Plate dimensions: 143 mm x 210 mm (5.63 in. x 8.27 in.).
  • Bibliography: Wildenstein (11-14) 5 i/ii; Baudicour (I, 161-63), 8; Carlson and Ittmann, cat. 47; Fragonard’s drawing (attributed) for plate 1 (after a marble bas-relief, then in the Villa Mattei, Rome) is in the Fogg Art Museum with two other studies for these etchings
  • Associated People: Created by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French, 1732-1806)
  • Accession Number: 1937.D1.76.3
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University

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