Peter Paul Rubens Pupil, head of a satyr (detail from the Medici series "Happiness of the Regency of Marie de Medici)
A satyr is a figure from Greek mythology. It is a cheerful and mischievous woodland creature, belonging to the retinue of the god Dionysos, and has the task of being a spirit of fertility.
Again, the face of the man in the portrait is in a grimace, a smile with the tongue out of his mouth under a grin.
Painting by an artist in the environment of Peter Paul Rubens, a Southern Dutch painter of Flemish Baroque from Antwerp, Brabant, Flanders, Belgium of the 16th and 17th century
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