Youth Playing a Pipe for a Satyr

Technique

Brush with colored oil paint; paper partly saturated with oil; lined

Dimensions

16 x 21-1/16 in. (40.6 x 53.5 cm)

Youth Playing a Pipe for a Satyr is a drawing by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) (Italian, Genoa 1609–1664 Mantua), 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). It is part of the Drawings and Prints collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Gustavus A. Pfeiffer Fund, 1962.