The Four Festivals (c. 1693–1715): Art, History and Details

The Four Festivals (c. 1693–1715) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Claude Gillot (French, 1673–1722).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This depiction of the festival of Diana, Roman goddess of forests and animals, accompanies three other scenes glorifying the nature gods Faunus, Bacchus, and Pan. In each print a frame of flourishing vegetation surrounds nude and semi-nude figures who frolic around an altar with a bust to the god. The caption below the Festival of Diana declares that this celebration is being "troubled by satyrs," whose muscular, goat-legged bodies and leering faces appear at either edge of the wooded grove.

Object facts

• Title: The Four Festivals
• Date: c. 1693–1715
• Creator attribution: Claude Gillot (French, 1673–1722)
• Culture: France
• Type: Print
• Technique: etching and engraving
• Collection: PR - Etching
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1985.97

Collection credit

In memory of Jane Millar Harris and John H. Harris

Further reading listed by the museum

• Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1985.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 73, no. 2 (February 1986): 26–71.

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