The Satyr Family (Q18338443)
Label from: English (en)
movement:
German Renaissance (Q2455000)
genre:
mythology (Q9134)
artist:
Albrecht Dürer (Q5580)
collection:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
National Gallery of Art (Q214867)
Prints in the National Gallery of Art (Q64946756)
Rosenwald Collection (Q62274660)
Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden (Q570620)
Philadelphia Museum of Art (Q510324)
Art Institute of Chicago (Q239303)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Q1641836)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (Q1129820)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (Q160236)
location:
National Gallery of Art (Q214867)
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
country of origin:
Germany (Q183)
material used:
laid paper (Q1513685)
location of final assembly:
Nuremberg (Q2090)
fabrication method:
copper engraving technique (Q4287629)
depicts:
satyr (Q163709)
instance of:
copper engraving print (Q18887969)
print (Q11060274)
The Met object ID:
359988
National Gallery of Art artwork ID:
6680
catalog URL: https://clevelandart.org/art/1959.224
information from the National Gallery of Art catalog
description: Dürer’s interest in mythological imagery stemmed from his familiarity with the Italian Renaissance. In this ambiguous engraving, Dürer depicted a satyr-a hybrid woodland creature typically associated with lust-in the role of father and family man. Instead of carousing in the forest, he plays music to his newborn child. Dürer’s play on the mother and child theme and the satyr’s unconventional fatherly behavior draws attention to a primal and simplified way of life. In contrast though, the group rests within an inhospitable dense forest where tops of trees are splintered and branches are dead, implying that the figures’ relaxed instinctual approach toward procreation and sexuality remains outside the bounds of Christian virtue.
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