A Bacchanal, Silenus supported by two bacchants in the centre, at right a female satyr reclining on a bed and another pulling the horns on a statue of Priapus, various other figures fill the composition
For discussion of this print, its dating and relationship to another version of the print by Marcantonio, see James Grantham Turner, 'Marcantonio's Raimondi's Bacchanals: New Findings', Print Quarterly, vol. XXXIV, 2017, pp.259-69. This print is the second version. For the first version see 17.50.158.
Artwork Details
- Title: A Bacchanal, Silenus supported by two bacchants in the centre, at right a female satyr reclining on a bed and another pulling the horns on a statue of Priapus, various other figures fill the composition
- Artist: Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?))
- Date: ca. 1510–13
- Medium: Engraving
- Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 5 7/8 × 20 3/8 in. (15 × 51.8 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
- Object Number: 17.50.92
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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