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Pan and Syrinx
Also titled Pan en Syrinx
Caesar van Everdingen (1616–1678)
c. 1644 - c. 1652
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint), oak (wood)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 49.3 cm x width 36.8 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions nudity. How works are placed
About this work
The nymph Syrinx is on the run, with the forest god Pan, hidden among the dense vegetation, in hot pursuit. Van Everdingen captures the dramatic moment of the metamorphosis as Syrinx implores the river nymphs for help. They transform her into water reeds. Her right foot is already turning green. Disappointed, Pan listens to the wind playing through the tall reeds and subsequently cuts his flute from them.
