Nymph Sitting on the Hands of Two Satyrs from Bacchanales, or Satyrs' Games

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Nymph Sitting on the Hands of Two Satyrs from Bacchanales, or Satyrs' Games, 1763. Etching on ivory laid paper.

Etching on ivory laid paper · Image: 13.2 × 19.8 cm · Art Institute of Chicago

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Museum title: Nymph Sitting on the Hands of Two Satyrs from Bacchanales, or Satyrs' Games
Artist: Jean-Honoré Fragonard French, 1732-1806
Date: 1763
Medium: Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: Image: 13.2 × 19.8 cm (5 1/4 × 7 13/16 in.); Sheet: 13.4 × 20.1 cm (5 5/16 × 7 15/16 in.)
Credit line: Gift of the Print and Drawing Club
Image license: CC0 1.0 · Public domain
Museum record: Art Institute of Chicago

Artist’s life 1732–1806

Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.