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Shown from the about the thighs up, a man, a woman holding a swaddled baby, and a satyr, which has a man’s torso and goat’s legs, sit and stand around a table in a deeply shadowed room, filling this horizontal painting. All the people have light skin and dark hair, and are lit dramatically from our left. To our left, the bare-chested satyr faces our right in profile as he leans toward the table, looking up at the woman. He wears a crown of leaves and has a dark goatee. Almost lost in shadow, a sable-brown horn juts up from his temple. Light falls across his bare shoulders, and his hands and…

The Satyr and the Peasant

Johann Liss (German, c. 1597 - 1631)

possibly c. 1623/1626 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Widener Collection

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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