ID: 700008198 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008198	Record Type: Movable Work

Pan cuts the reed into which the nymph Syrinx has turned (drawing (visual work); Unknown maker, School of Fontainebleau (Artist); mid-16th century; J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, Calif...; 2009.73)

Note: The drawing depicts an episode of Greek mythology related in Ovid's Metamorphoses (1:689-713). Pan, the god of woods and fields was pursuing a nymph of Arcadia named Syrinx when the two of them reached the river Ladon, which blocked her escape. To avoid the god's advances she turned into a reed. The sound of the wind blowing through the reeds pleased Pan so much that he cut some in order to make a set of pipes: this is precisely the moment that the artist chose to represent. The loves of Pan were often depicted during the French Renaissance. The subject not only satisfied the renewed interest in classical culture, but it offered artists rich pictorial opportunities.Tall reeds, which signify Syrinx's metamorphosis, form the central focus of the composition, thereby underscoring Pan's frustrated desire for the nymph. The reeds are rendered in an abstracted fashion, which contrasts with the rugged appearance of the tree trunk-in the right middleground- and its broken branches. Another satyr is asleep under the tree; he is leaning on the fantastical, bearded head of a river god. The reflection in the extreme foreground implies that the river Ladon is meant to have been right before the picture plane. A montainous landscape with buildings is visible in the distance.

Titles:

Pan cuts the reed into which the nymph Syrinx has turned (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,,)

Pan Cutting Reeds (C,U,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

drawing (visual work) [300033973] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

drawings (preferred)

Creation Date: mid-16th century

Creator Display:

Unknown maker, School of Fontainebleau (Artist) [preferred,JPGM]

unknown (unknown cultural designation) [500125274]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500115988] J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 2009.73

Other: Creation: France [1000070] Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: Pen and brown ink, and brown wash on brown paper, over traces of black chalk, on several joined pieces of paper; framing line in brown ink; squared for transfer

	pens (drawing and writing implements) [300022452]
	.......(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name), equipment, <equipment by process>, image-making equipment, <equipment for drafting| drawing| and writing>, <drafting| drawing and writing equipment by specific type>)

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	wash (material) [300011051]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	paper (fiber product) [300014109]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>)

	chalk [300011727]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material)

Dimensions: 56.2 x 40.8 cm (22 1/8 x 16 1/16 in.)

Cultures:

Italian (preferred)

French

General Subject:

religion and mythology (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Pan and Syrinx [901000644]
	.....((Greek narratives, Greek iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	reed (plant) [300375478]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Plantae (kingdom), Angiospermae (division), Liliopsida (class), Poales (order)) (AAT)

Inscriptions: Recto, at top in brown ink Ve [?] paneau 4; verso in pencil: Pan et Syrinx / Moreau le Jeune / analogue aux "jeunes filles au bain"/ all'Albertine; and 397 in a circle; 265 in a circle; in blue ink?: Grf.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Pan cuts the reed into which the nymph Syrinx has turned	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Pan Cutting Reeds	........ [JPGM]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]

Note:
English	..... [JPGM]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)