The Drunken Silenus with Satyrs (Album I)

WAG 1995.128

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All the figures apart form the three putti in the left foreground are cp[oed from 'The drunken Silenus' by Peter Paul Rubens in Munich, Alte Pinakothek, datable to about 1616-18. The putti are taken from Van Dyck's version of the same subject in Berlin, Staatliche Museen, dated to about 1618-19. [Mantegna to Rubens: The Weld-Blundell Drawings Collection (Brooke, 1998, p196)]