# Youth Playing a Pipe for a Satyr, in 17th-century Italy

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione painted this in 1645–50, aged about 36. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> A youth plays a pipe for a satyr, one of the pastoral subjects from the classical world that Castiglione returned to again and again.

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## The work

- Date: 1645–50
- Medium: Brush with colored oil paint; paper partly saturated with oil; lined
- Dimensions: 16 x 21-1/16 in. (40.6 x 53.5 cm)
- Type: Drawings
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 62.126
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/giovanni-benedetto-castiglione), Italian, 1609–1664

Castiglione, nicknamed Il Grechetto, trained in his native Genoa and worked in Rome before becoming court painter to the Gonzaga in Mantua.

4 works in the collection.

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