Jean Antoine Pierron
France, b.1780, d.1812
Le faune en repos
- Engraving
- Sir Joseph Kinsey bequest
- 609 x 446mm
- 73/146
Tags: animals, Classical, cloaks, figures (representations), fur (hair), men (male humans), monochrome, mythical or legendary beings, mythology (literary genre), nudes (representations), people (agents), sculpture (visual work), trees
This print is a page from the multi-volume 'Musée Francais; receuil des plus beaux tableaux, statues, et bas-reliefs qui existaient au Louvre avant 1815'. This monumental 1829 publication documented the contents of the Louvre Museum during the Napoleonc era when it had housed art treasures from all over occupied Europe.
The statue depicted is now in the Capitoline Museum, Rome.
