![Feste de Faune, Dieu des Forests [Festival of Faun, God of the Forests], from Les quatre fêtes satyriques [The Four Satyric Festivals]](/internal/media/dispatcher/23335/preview)
![Feste de Faune, Dieu des Forests [Festival of Faun, God of the Forests], from Les quatre fêtes satyriques [The Four Satyric Festivals]](/internal/media/dispatcher/23335/full)
Feste de Faune, Dieu des Forests [Festival of Faun, God of the Forests], from Les quatre fêtes satyriques [The Four Satyric Festivals]
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Claude Gillot
(Langres, France, 1673–Paris, France, 1722)
NationalityFrench, Europe
Date1695
MediumEtching
DimensionsSheet: 10 1/16 × 16 1/16 in. (25.5 × 40.8 cm)
Additional Dimension: 8 3/4 × 14 5/8 in. (22.2 × 37.1 cm)
Additional Dimension: 8 3/4 × 14 5/8 in. (22.2 × 37.1 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Julie and Lawrence Salander, 2006.238
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2006.238
On View
Not on viewA painter, draftsman and prolific etcher, Gillot is best known as Watteau’s teacher. His series of fêtes satyriques are ostensibly mythological, but unusually free in invention and vague in meaning, anticipating elements of Watteau’s approach to pastoral subjects.
Exhibitions
![Le Culte de Dieu [The Cult of God], from Les Sacrifices](/internal/media/dispatcher/17865/thumbnail)