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Autel de Bacchus, from Les Plus Beaux Monuments de Rome Ancienne ou Recueil des plus beaux Morceaux de l'Antiquité Romaine qui existent encore

Designed and engraved by Jean Barbault French
Publisher Bouchard & Gravier Italian
1761
Not on view
Plate 51, View with a three-sided (candelabrum?) base or altar with a dancing female figure on the vertical face. The figure is identified in the text on the adjacent page (page 85) as one of the three bacchanals represented on the sculpture. The tripod is decorated with harpies standing on rams-head's at the corners and ornamental bands along the top and bottom. This image is one of twenty-nine full-page plates in the volume.

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  • Title: Autel de Bacchus, from Les Plus Beaux Monuments de Rome Ancienne ou Recueil des plus beaux Morceaux de l'Antiquité Romaine qui existent encore
  • Artist: Designed and engraved by Jean Barbault (French, Viarmes 1718–1762 Rome)
  • Printer: Giunchi Heritiers de Komarek
  • Publisher: Bouchard & Gravier (Rome)
  • Published in: Rome
  • Date: 1761
  • Medium: Etching
  • Dimensions: Plate: 12 1/4 × 8 1/16 in. (31.1 × 20.4 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1952
  • Object Number: 52.519.87(98)
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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