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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
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Medium
- Engraving
- Dimensions
- sheet: 10 1/8 x 8 1/8 in. (25.7 x 20.7 cm) plate: 9 3/16 x 7 5/16 in. (23.3 x 18.5 cm)
- Collection no.
- 2012.136.44
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
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. Claude Mellan; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
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 — Claude Mellan. ca. 1636–45.
Medium: Engraving. Dimensions: sheet: 10 1/8 x 8 1/8 in. (25.7 x 20.7 cm) plate: 9 3/16 x 7 5/16 in. (23.3 x 18.5 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.