Title: The Birth (La Naissance): in a forest, the new mother resting in a hammock at center, the newborn below her to left, various satyrs and goats surrounding, from "The lives of satyrs" (La vie des satyres)
Object type: Print
Date: ca. 1700–20
Portfolio: The lives of satyrs (La vie des satyres)
Artist:  Claude Gillot 
Artist bio: French, Langres 1673–1722 Paris
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: sheet: 10 3/8 x 13 11/16 in. (26.4 x 34.8 cm)
plate: 10 1/16 x 13 3/8 in. (25.6 x 34 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Satyrs, term: Goats, term: Forests, term: Birth, term: Crowd