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Silenus Accompanied by a Satyr and a Faun
Silenus Accompanied by a Satyr and a Faun

Silenus Accompanied by a Satyr and a Faun

Artist Christoffel Jegher (Flemish, 1596 - ca. 1653)
Artist After Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577 - 1640)
Dateca. 1635
MediumWoodcut
DimensionsImage: 17 7/16 x 13 5/16 inches (44.25 x 33.81 cm)
Mat: 26 1/2 x 21 inches (67.31 x 53.34 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: Nelson Gallery Foundation
Object numberF84-57
Edition/State/ProofI/II
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

A Bountiful Decade: Selected Acquisitions, 1977–1987, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 14–December 6, 1987, no. 108, as Silenus Accompanied by a Satyr and a Faun.

Thirty Years of Print Purchases for the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, November 19 - December 31, 1989, no. 15.

Graphic Masterworks from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 23-July 25, 1993, no cat., as Silenus Accompanied by a Satyr and a Faun, after Peter Paul Rubens.

Inked in Time: Six Centuries of Printed Masterpieces, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 22-May 31, 1998, no cat., as Silenus Accompanied by a Satyr and a Faun, after Rubens.

Dürer to Tiepolo: Works on Paper, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 3-October 7, 2007, no cat., as Silenus Accompanied by a Satyr and a Faun, after Peter Paul Rubens.

Dürer to Tiepolo: Works on Paper, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, December 12, 2012-June 9, 2013, no cat., as Silenus Accompanied by a Satyr and a Faun, after Peter Paul Rubens.

Gallery Label
Jegher was the only woodcut artist among the dozen printmakers that the great Flemish painter Rubens employed to make printed transcriptions of his sketches. Jegher's nine, large woodcut versions of Rubens' designs, of which this print is an example, convey the grand sweep and figural majesty of Rubens' style. Here, Silenus-mentor and companion to Dionysus, the Greek god of wine-is assisted in his drunkenness by two satyrs. The trio represent the luxuriant and sensual aspects of nature. Jegher's print is based loosely on one of Rubens' drawings, which was no doubt inspired by any number of Roman sarcophagi and sculptures with which Rubens was familiar.

Provenance

With Jeffrey D.L. Wortman, Inc., New York, by August 20, 1984;

Purchased from Jeffrey D.L. Wortman by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1984.
Published References

François Basan et al., Dictionnaire des graveurs anciens et modernes depuis l'origine de la gravure, vol. 1, 2nd ed. (Paris: Chez J.J. Blaise, 1789), no. 67, p. 288, as Silène yvre, soutenu par un Satyre.

 

C.G. Voorhelm Schneevoogt, Catalogue des estampes gravées d'après P.P. Rubens: avec l'indication des collections où se trouvent les tableaux et les gravures (Haarlem, The Netherlands: Les héritiers Loosjes, 1873), no. 139, p. 135,  erroneously as Bacchus ivre, soutenu par un Satyre et par une autre figure.

 

Eugène M. Dutuit, Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, vol. 6, Écoles flamande et hollandaise, vol. 3 (Paris: A. Levy, 1885), no. 67, p. 154, as Bacchus ivre soutenu par un satyre et par un nègre.

 

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts: ca. 1450-1700, vol. 9, Heer-Kuyl (Amsterdam: Hertzberger, 1953), no. 16 I/II, p. 188.

 

Roger Ward, ed., A Bountiful Decade: Selected Acquisitions, 1977-1987, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1987), 242-43, (repro.), as Silenus Accompanied by a Satyr and a Faun, after P.P. Rubens.


Thirty Years of Print Purchases for the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, November 19 - December 31, 1989, p. 6.

 

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 164, (repro.), as Silenus Accompanied by a Satyr and a Faun, after Peter Paul Rubens.  

 

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 78-81, 289, (repro), as Silenus Accompanied by a Satyr and a Faun, after Rubens.

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 73, (repro.), as Silenus Accompanied by a Satyr and a Faun, after Peter Paul Rubens.  

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