# Faun and Mermaid [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [STUCK, Franz von]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 157 x 62 cm ## Commentary In this picture, Stuck brings together a faun, a hybrid of man and billy goat, and a creature from the sea. The forest spirit caringly carries the water maiden, equipped with flippers, through the knee-deep water. The water is the reason for the piggyback situation, and we see a high-spirited, vital game on the seashore, devised with human models. Like other successful pictorial inventions, Franz von Stuck took up the motif again much later in a bronze statuette. ## Related artworks - [Amazon]() - [Cover of the magazine "Jugend"]() - [Dissonance]() - [Faun playing the Panpipes by the Sea]() - [Fighting for a Woman]() - [Franz and Mary Stuck]() - [Front cover of Pan]() - [Inferno]() - [Lost]() - [Pan]() - [Salome]() - [Self-Portrait in the Studio]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()