Bulletin du Musée National de Varsovie (37.1996)

12. Gerard van Honthorst,
Satyrs with a Brass Pitcher,
1 623, private collection

and depiction of characters are very typical of this artist.29 The bearded Satyr
with the pitcher sits on the ground and turns with a smile towards a younger
companion who, kneeling to the left, presses with both hands the red grape
liquor into the vessel. Both foreground figures, brightly illuminated, are
represented against a background of a tree set in a shadow and only partially

29 Private collection in Poland, oil on canvas, signed and dated, 122,8 x 100,2 cm; cf. Caravaggio:
Zlozenie do Grobu etc., op. cit., cat. no. 19.

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