Infant Bacchanal
Sauvage’s name was synonymous with trompe l’oeil (fool the eye) paintings that imitated low relief ancient sculpture and became hugely popular for Neoclassical room decoration. The present painting is meant to imitate bronze. The subject is taken from a relief by the sculptor Clodion (1738–1814).
Artwork Details
- Title: Infant Bacchanal
- Artist: Piat Joseph Sauvage (Flemish, Tournai 1744–1818 Tournai)
- Date: 1780s
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 10 1/4 x 29 5/8 in. (26 x 75.2 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906
- Object Number: 07.225.314b
- Curatorial Department: European Paintings
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