Vase with Two Winged Satyrs

Vase with Two Winged Satyrs

René Boyvin

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Depiction of a vase or ewer. The vase is characterized by two large satyr figures placed below the handle and the spout.The print is part of a series of 12 vases said to be designed by Rosso Fiorentino and Polidoro da Caravaggio and initially engraved and published by René Boyvin. The current series was first published by Claes Jansz. Visscher in the early seventeenth century and subsequently also by Frederik de Wit.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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