Claude Mellan

Two satyrs, traditionally known as the 'Mockers,' laughing and using their limbs to pin a drawing to a tree trunk, at left a smiling man points toward the drawing, at right is a laughing woman, a globe underneath one of the satyrs

ca. 1636–45
Engraving
25.7 × 20.7 cm (10.1 × 8.1 in)

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