Art, literature & history![Seated Satyr Leaning Backward [recto] — Jean-Baptiste Deshays](/_next/image?url=%2Fassets%2Fartworks%2Fopen-museums%2Fnight-nga-commons%2F2bf8b527-86cd-446a-b1c8-e1937a331bf6-5b548f84e8b95976.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Seated Satyr Leaning Backward [recto]
1758/1765
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- black chalk with stumping, heightened with white on brown laid paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 50 x 39 cm (19 11/16 x 15 3/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1998.17.3.a
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Baptiste Deshays. Seated Satyr Leaning Backward [recto]. Jean-Baptiste Deshays; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-Baptiste_Deshays,_Seated_Satyr_Leaning_Backward_(recto),_1758-1765,_NGA_75862.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Seated Satyr Leaning Backward [recto] — Jean-Baptiste Deshays. 1758/1765.
Medium: black chalk with stumping, heightened with white on brown laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 50 x 39 cm (19 11/16 x 15 3/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1998.17.3.a. Woodner Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.