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Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich

The Satyr in Peasant's House

1764
Etching on paper
14.2 × 16.9 cm (5.6 × 6.7 in)

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In this etching, produced twenty-five years after the preceding one, Dietrich returns to the subject Satyr in a Peasant's House, but eliminates much of the detail found in the earlier print.

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