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. Date: 0000. Place of creation: France, 18th century. Medium: etching print and engraving. Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art. Claude Gillot - The Four Festivals- Festival of Diana - 1985.97.1 - Cleveland Museum of Art
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