The Four Festivals: Festival of Diana, Claude Gillot

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