A decorative plaque with winged figures

Former TitleOrnament

Alternate TitleSatyress Feeding Two Children

Artist Peregrino da Cesena (Italian, ca. 1490 - 1520)

Dateearly 16th century

MediumEngraving

DimensionsPlate: 2 7/8 x 1 13/16 inches (7.3 x 4.6 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number33-1660

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Exhibition History

Decorative Designs, Decorative Landscapes and Still Life, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 29-November 8, 2009, no cat., as A decorative plaque with winged figures.

Decorative Designs, Decorative Landscapes and Still Life, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 15-July1 6, 2017, no cat., as A decorative plaque with winged figures.

Architecture and Decorative Arts in Prints from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 13-April 10, 1983, no. 17, as Satyress Feeding Two Children, dated about 1505-1520.

Gallery Label

The dark background of this print throws the figures into relief and echoes the work of goldsmiths or silversmiths, whose decorative designs often had a background of black enamel. In this example, a winged female figure at the top is suckled by two infants. Below are flute playing satyrs with deer, and at the bottom is a winged male figure holding torches flanked by cherubs with fish tails who are blowing horns.

Provenance

With Alden Galleries, Kansas City, MO, by December 28, 1933;

Purchased from Alden Galleries by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.

Published References

Johann David Passavant, Le Peintre-Graveur, vol. 5 (Leipzig: Rudolph Weigel, 1864), no. 68, p. 218, as Arabesque à la femelle de Satyre allaitant ses petits.

Eugène M. Dutuit, Manuel de L’Amateur D’Estampes, vol. 1, part 2 (Paris: A. Lévy, 1888), no. 704, pp. 297, 329, as Arabesques avec une Satyresse allaitant deux enfants.

Arthur Mayger Hind, Early Italian Engraving, 7 vols. (London: 1938-48), no. 265a.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 306, as Arabesque with Satyress Feeding Two Children.

Architecture and Decorative Arts in Prints from the Permanent Collection, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1983), p. 3, as Satyress Feeing Two Children, dated about 1505-1520.

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