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Satyr Approaching a Sleeping Nymph, ca. 1594 - 1597

  • burin engraving, paper
  • 151 x 102 mm
  • Inv. 2013-EJ

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A satyr stalking a sleeping nymph was a popular erotic motif in the Italian Renaissance. The source of inspiration was the discovery in 1512 of a marble statue from antiquity, which was placed in the garden of the Vatican. Mirrored print after the original by Agostino Carracci.