# Pan and Selene [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [AACHEN, Hans von]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on panel, 40 x 49 cm ## Commentary Pan is the Greek god of nature who watches over shepherds and their flocks. He is most commonly depicted as having the hindquarters, legs, and horns of a goat, with the upper body and hands of a human male, resembling a faun. Pan enticed the moon goddess Selene. Pan accomplished this feat by wrapping himself in a sheepskin to hide his hairy black goat form, and drew Selene down from the sky into the forest where he seduced her. ## Related artworks - [A Couple in a Tavern]() - [Allegory of Peace, Art and Abundance]() - [Allegory]() - [Anna of Tyrol]() - [Bacchus, Ceres and Cupid]() - [Bacchus, Venus and Cupid]() - [Boy with Grapes]() - [Couple with Mirror]() - [David and Bathsheba]() - [Declaration of War before Constantine]() - [Gaspar Rem]() - [Jupiter, Antiope and Cupid]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()