The Satyr’s Dance

Jean-Honoré Fragonard1763

Details

Title: The Satyr’s Dance
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: dance, dancers, mythology
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Dimensions: Plate dimensions: 144 mm x 212 mm (5.67 in. x 8.35 in.).
Bibliography: Wildenstein (11-14) 6 i/ii; Baudicour (I, 161-63), 9; 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.D1.76.4

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