Monday, July 22, 2019

The God Pan - III

attributed to Ugo da Carpi after Parmigianino
Pan
ca. 1510-30
chiaroscuro woodcut
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Peter Paul Rubens
Pan reclining
ca. 1610
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Annibale Carracci
Pan and Hermaphroditus
before 1609
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Nicolas Poussin
Bacchanal before a Herm of Pan
1631-33
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

after Salvator Rosa
Pan
ca. 1660
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

To Homer

Standing aloof in giant ignorance,
     Of thee I hear and of the Cyclades,
As one who sits ashore and longs perchance
     To visit dolphin-coral in deep seas.
So thou wast blind – but then the veil was rent,
     For Jove uncurtain'd Heaven to let thee live,
And Neptune made for thee a spumy tent,
     And Pan made sing for thee his forest-hive;
Aye on the shores of darkness there is light,
     And precipices show untrodden green,
There is a budding morrow in midnight,
     There is s triple sight in blindness keen;
Such seeing hadst thou, as it once befel
To Dian, Queen of Earth, and Heaven, and Hell.

– John Keats (posthumously published in 1848)

Hubert Quellinus
Bust of Pan
before 1670
engraving
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer (designer) for Beauvais Manufactory
Offering to Pan
ca. 1688-1732
tapestry (wool and silk)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jean-Jacques Lagrenée
Sacrifice to the God Pan
ca. 1775
etching
Art Institute of Chicago

Bertel Thorvaldsen
Pan teaching the Pipes to a young Satyr
1831
drawing
British Museum

Edward Burne-Jones
The Garden of Pan
1886-87
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Hippolyte Petitjean
Pan IV (Arcadia)
ca. 1898-1900
lithograph
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl
Three Studies for Pan
ca. 1900
pastel
Art Institute of Chicago

Clarence H. White
Youth in the Woods (Pan)
ca. 1905-1908
platinum print
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

John Singer Sargent
Sketch for a Figure of Pan
(study for Rotunda of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
ca. 1917-21
drawing
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Ernest-Louis Lessieux
Pan
before 1925
lithograph (postcard)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston