Youth Playing a Pipe for a Satyr, 1645–50, Brush with colored oil paint; paper partly saturated with oil; lined, 16 x 21-1/16 in. (40.6 x 53.5 cm), Drawings, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) (Italian, Genoa 1609–1664 Mantua), The artist ventured here with spellbinding bravura into the bucolic world of satyrs and nymphs, attaining the effect of a deliberately unfinished easel painting. The satyr has finished playing his shepherd's pipe and sprawls out with hedonistic abandon as he listens to the beautiful youth take his turn on a pipe
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