The Frisky Satyr

A Blog for Pan's Children

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Helen Stratton

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Faun, take me from this modern place into a meadow that is ignorant of time. Lay me down in hills of clover. Kiss me with the sweet taste of honey on thine lips.

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Filippo Lauri

ROME 1623 - 1694

A SATYR HELD BY TWO PUTTI BEFORE VENUS

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French, 18th century, attributed to Barthélémy-François Chardigny (1757-1813)

SATYR AND NYMPH

This terracotta is part of the corpus of "Clodionesque" works. Among the sculptors who were greatly influenced by Clodion, we can mention Barthélémy-François Chardigny (Rouen, 1757-Paris, 1813). Student of Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain and Augustin Pajou, First Prize of sculpture in 1782 and resident-artist in Rome, Chardigny proves a great technical mastery and a particular way to treat the surface on researching effects blending realism and idealization. The bust of Claude-François Achard, around 1791(plaster imitating terracotta, Marseilles, Academy of Sciences, letters and arts, Inv. No 69) recalls our group, notably the softness its modeling and the realism that emerges, along with the attention paid to the rendering of matter. A few years later, Chardigny executed the two terracotta representing Bacchus and Ariane Reclining (dated 1802, Paris, Drouot, 20 March 1992, lot 54). If his approach evolved endlessly, Chardigny retained his inkling for the depiction of details and the constancy of certain iconographic elements such as the tambourines and cistus blossoms here present.

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Attributed to Giovanni Bonazza (1654-1736) Italian, Padua, circa 1700 Satyr and Nymph

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A Roman Marble Head of a Satyr, circa 2nd Century A.D.

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Joé Descomps, Paris

Jeweled Cup set with amethysts and purple glass cabochons.

The bowl featuring satyrs and nymphs playing love games is supported by three cranes. The bird’s wings form the stem and their claws form the circular base. 

Emmanuel Jules Joseph Descomps (1872-1948), known as ‘Joé’, and later as ‘Joseph Cormier’ is mainly known for his Art Nouveau sculptures of beautiful sensual women and received his training with the celebrated sculptor Alexandre Falguières (1831-1900P). He was also a silversmith and produced some jewelry, such as gold pendant decorated with plique-à-jour enamel which is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, (M.40-1961). In 1883, Joé became a member of the French Society of Artists, and in 1898, he received an honorable mention for two small statues and three gold brooches: Insouciance, Le Sommeil, and Enfant nénuphar. In 1908, he participated in an exhibition at the Museum Galliera entitled "Precious Head Ornaments".  

No further information has been found yet on the partnership of Joé Descomps and Jean-Baptiste François, but a silver beaker with glass cabochon, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, also bears both makers’ marks (1998.307).

The present cup was exhibited at the Salon des Artists in 1904 and described in the Review, L’Art Decoratif Revue Mensuelle, 1904, as follows:

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AN ITALIAN FRUITWOOD TRIUMPH OF BACCHUS PANEL, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix

SATYR EMBRACING A NYMPH, AFTER PETER-PAUL RUBENS

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AFTER CLODION (1738-1814), FRENCH, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY, INFANT SATYR RUNNING WITH A CUP INFANT SATYR RUNNING WITH A BIRD'S NEST

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Clodion (French, 1738–1814). Pair of Bacchic Groups with Nymph, Satyr and Infant, ca. 1775.

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Of Ritual Madness and Ecstasy.

Painting i did for my friend’s bday

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It’s one hell of a gorgeous day for an erection, but when five guys can’t get it up, you know you’ve got a problem! 😜

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The Belfast Pan found a home in the shade garden. I love how his color blends with the maples.

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The satyr is particularly well featured in Ex-libris book plates.

1) Pan And Nymphs"Erotic Ex Libris by Julian Jordanov 

2) Ex-libris, Chester Dodge, Satyr

3) Ex-libris by Yasukiko Aoki.

4) Ex-libris by Walter Helfenbein 

5) Satyr and Nymph Ex-libris by Graf Mayr, 1916

6) Ex-libris by Jenö Haranghy

7) Ex-libris by Robert Baramov

8) Ex-libris by August Stoehr 

9) Satyr and Nymph Ex-libris by Graf Mayr, 1916

9) Ex-libris by Jelena Kisseljowa

10) Ex-libris by Norman Lindsey

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Stefano della Bella, Study of a Satyr, 1647

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Illustration from The rose of Venus. Handwritten by a devotee and illustrated by various unknown artists. Diosa Venus Immortal Reina del Universo. Tangier 1938