Bacchanales: Nymph Supported by Two Satyrs
1763
- Medium
- etching
- Dimensions
- 13.3 × 20 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-207079
The set of Bacchanales was made two years after Fragonard returned from a trip to Italy where he studied Roman antiquities. However, these light-hearted vignettes owe more to the effervescent aspects of the 18th-century Rococo period than to a serious understanding of antiquity and Roman art. Fragonard's black chalk drawing for Nymph Supported by Two Satyrs—after a marble bas-relief then in the Villa Mattei in Rome—and two other studies for these etchings still exist. Although this is one of Fragonard's earliest prints, it shows that he had already mastered the process: the etched lines effec…
Provenance
Allen Fund, 1924.251
Registry history
- 1763 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints
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