Satyresses are the female equivalent to satyr

Satyr

In Greek mythology, satyrs are a troop of male companions of Pan and Dionysus — "satyresses" were a late invention of poets — that roamed the woods and mountains. In myths they are often associated with pipe-playing....

s, depicted with a human head and torso, generally including bare breasts, but the body of a goat from waist down. They were a late invention by poets and artists and are comparatively rare in classical art. Such a creature may also be known as a fauness, but this nomenclature is rarely seen in English; faunesse is the spelling in French.

Though not often seen compared to the omnipresent depictions of male satyrs and centaur

Centaur

In Greek mythology, a centaur or hippocentaur is a member of a composite race of creatures, part human and part horse...

s, the satyress figure was certainly not unknown to classical artists. Michelangelo

Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art...

 included a haggard satyress nursing drunken toddlers at her elderly breasts in his 1533 work, The Children's Bacchanal.Michelangelo Buonarotti: The Children's Bacchanal, published online by Royal Collection: Royal Palaces, Residences, and Art Collection. United Kingdom. Accessed February 4, 2008.

The Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago is one of America's largest accredited independent schools of art and design, located in the Loop in Chicago, Illinois. It is associated with the museum of the same name, and "The Art Institute of Chicago" or "Chicago Art Institute" often refers to either...

 has an example of a beautiful, mature satyress accompanied by putti

Putto

A putto is a figure of an infant often depicted as a young male. Putti are defined as chubby, winged or wingless, male child figure in nude. Putti are distinct from cherubim, but some English-speakers confuse them with each other, except that in the plural, "the Cherubim" refers to the biblical...

 and a male satyr in a 16th century study by Paolo Farinati

Paolo Farinati

Paolo Farinati was an Italian painter of the Mannerist style, active in mainly in his native Verona, but also in Mantua and Venice....

 of Italy

Italy

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. A third satyr figure is presented in rear three-quarter view and its gender cannot be definitively determined, though the glimpse of the chest suggests small female breasts are present.Paolo Farinati, Italian, 1524-1606, Art Institute of Chicago. Accessed February 4, 2008. The Art Institute also holds a bronze candlestand or oil lamp of a mature female satyr seated with her satyr-son leaning against her knee while she holds a light aloft. The tentative date on this work is circa 1500, pushing the motif back into the 15th century.(Workshop of) Andrea Riccio, Italian, Satyr Mother and Child, Art Institute of Chicago. Accessed February 4, 2008.

Clodion used the motif in a work which is now in the Walters Art Museum

Walters Art Museum

The Walters Art Museum, located in Baltimore, Maryland's Mount Vernon neighborhood, is a public art museum founded in 1934. The museum's collection was amassed substantially by two men, William Thompson Walters , who began serious collecting when he moved to Paris at the outbreak of the American...

 in Baltimore

Baltimore

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, Maryland: Female Satyr Carrying Two Putti. This young and healthy satyress is striding upright, carrying a squirming cherub in each arm.Female Satyr Carrying Two Putti, terra cotta work displayed in Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland. Accessed February 4, 2008. At least one small terra cotta satyress depicted reclining was created by a student of Clodion in the late 18th or early 19th Century, but is in a private collection.Dictionnaire des termes de l'art: anglais/français & français/anglais, by Claude Ferment. La Maison Du Dictionnaire, (1994). English ISBN 2856080596

Giambattista Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo , also known as Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice...

, an 18th century Venetian painter in the rococo style, painted at least two works with a satyress as the main figure: Satyress with a Putto and Satyress With Two Putti and a Tambourine.Timeline of Artists, Accessed February 4, 2008. Although satyrs are generally shown seducing human women, Tiepolo drew Satyr Surprising A Satyress, which depicts a hirsute satyr grasping a relatively bare-skinned satyress around the waist.Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian, 1727-1804: Satyr Surprising A Satyress, Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago

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. Accessed February 4, 2008.

The satyress is common in modern fantasy art. They may be portrayed as normal human women with the hind legs of a goat and a tail. In modern fantasy art, they commonly are shown with pointed ears and horns as well. Aubrey Beardsley

Aubrey Beardsley

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley was an English illustrator and author. His drawings, done in black ink and influenced by the style of Japanese woodcuts, emphasized the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the Aesthetic movement which also included Oscar Wilde and James A....

has drawn the satyress figure in this style.