A Bacchanalian Scene

1642

Not on view

The drunken figure of Bacchus stands at right holding a jug, accompanied by a satyress and a black female dancer with a tambourine. Additional satyrs and satyresses are shown at center and left, nursing two children at lower left. The print reproduces a painting that hung in the Common Parlour at Houghton Hal, was bought by Catherine the Great. in 1779, and is now in the Pushkin Museum.

Artwork Details

Title: A Bacchanalian Scene
Artist: After Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, Siegen 1577–1640 Antwerp)
Etcher: Pieter Soutman (Dutch, Haarlem, ca. 1580–1657 Haarlem)
Date: 1642
Medium: Etching; first state
Dimensions: sheet: 17 11/16 x 19 11/16 in. (45 x 50 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925
Object Number: 25.62.29r
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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