The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Drunken Silenus (Tazza Farnese)

The Drunken Silenus (Tazza Farnese)

Date:: ca. 1597–1600
Medium:: Engraving printed from shallow silver cup
Dimensions:: sheet: 9 15/16 in. (25.3 cm) in diameter mount: 12 15/16 x 11 1/8 in. (32.8 x 28.2 cm.)
Classification:: Prints
Credit Line:: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927
Accession Number:: 27.78.1.150

This artwork is not on display

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: Manuscript on top: Qust'uno solomente stampato pr. An:/ Caraz: la sottocoppa poi d'orata./ Bellorio parlando di questo.; manuscript on bottom: Bellori Pag: 88. Bellissimo e il Sileno intagliato in una sottocoppa d'argento/ del Cardinale Farnese Questo componimento e uguale per disegno e per/ intaglio allo stile di Marco Antonio et alle belle stampe di Rafaelle/ con l'idea piu perfetta dell'antica.; further inscriptions on the bottom not legible.
Catalogue Raisonné

Bartsch, XVIII.193.18; De Grazia Bohlin, no. 19; Bohn 1995, no. 3906.018, only state
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