Dancing Satyr with Tambourine and Horn / Jacob Jordaens
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1974/1.135
- Title
- Dancing Satyr with Tambourine and Horn
- Artist
- Jacob Jordaens
- Artist Nationality
- Flemish
- Artist Life Dates
- 1593-1678
- Medium and Support
- black and red chalk, heightened with white on laid paper
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- Flanders (former nation/state/empire)
- Antwerp (inhabited place)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Flanders (former nation/state/empire)
- Creation Place 3
- Antwerp (inhabited place)
- Credit Line
- Museum Purchase
- Style/Group/Movement
- Baroque
- Period
- Europe, Baroque (1590-1750)
- Dimensions
- 36.7 cm x 19.1 cm (14 7/16 in. x 7 1/2 in.)
- Century
- 17th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Drawing
- Primary Object Type
- prepatory drawing
- Physical Description
- This chalk drawing on laid paper is vertically oriented. It is executed in black and red chalk, heightened with white, on tan paper. The piece is dominated with a dancing child satyr with goat legs and curly hair. He is wearing a redish cape. With one foot on the ground and one in the air, he is visible from his right side and he holds a small horn and a tambourine. He looks to the sky with his mouth agape. Several blades of grass suggest the ground below him.
- Subject Matter
- This chalk drawing depicts a young satyr, the half-human and half-goat creatures who joined in the revelry of Dionysus, the Greek god of wine. He carries a tamborine and a horn, with legs in motion and his mouth open as if in song. Jacob Jordaens was one of Antwerp's leading figure painters during the 17th c. working in a style similar to his friend, Peter Paul Rubens. This may have been a preparatory drawing for one of his mythological scenes.
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 787 x 1461
- File Size
- 104 KB
- Record
- 1974/1.135
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"Dancing Satyr with Tambourine and Horn; Jacob Jordaens." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1974-sl-1.135/1974_1.135.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 10, 2024.
