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Bacchanal with Seated Woman Holding a Baby

Printer Printed by Hidalgo Arnéra French
1959
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 690
Within the classical tradition, the bacchanal—a celebration centered around music, dance, and wine—offered artists an especially fruitful vehicle for depicting uninhibited movement and revelry. Here, Picasso rendered figures in the most simplified manner and in flat planes of color, as if seen in silhouette, accentuating the exaggerated poses of the horn player and the dancer with cymbals. The woman with a baby—a calm and static foil to her companions—adds a tender, familial note to the scene.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Bacchanal with Seated Woman Holding a Baby
  • Artist: Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France)
  • Printer: Printed by Hidalgo Arnéra
  • Date: 1959
  • Medium: Linoleum cut
  • Dimensions: block: 25 1/8 x 20 7/8 in. (63.8 x 53 cm)
    sheet: 29 5/8 x 24 1/2 in. (75.2 x 62.2 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: The Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kramer Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kramer, 1979
  • Object Number: 1979.620.25
  • Rights and Reproduction: © 2025 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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