Similar in composition and almost identical in size, Panofsky considered the Satyr's Family as a companion piece to Apollo and Diana (Bartsch 68; Meder 64; Schoch Mende Scherbaum 38) ), and saw them as expressions of two ideals of the Renaissance; the Olympian and the Idyllic. It is also a response to an engraving of the same theme by Jacopo de' Barbari, who had moved from Venice to Germany in 1500. The Satyr's Family - which should be more correctly titled Satyr and Nymph - is also related to Adam and Eve (see lot 16). Formally, the placement of the pair of nudes before a background of a dark forest is reminiscent of Adam and Eve, created one year earlier, and it could be described as a bucolic, pagan variation on the same theme; man and woman in a state of natural innocence.