Bacchanal
mid-1600s
- Medium
- pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white gouache; incised, framing lines in brown ink over traces of black chalk
- Dimensions
- 26.3 × 43.5 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-208530
Here, a bacchanalia is in full swing with its required cast of characters: Bacchus, Roman god of wine, at right; Silenus, atop the wine barrel, always ready for another glass; and numerous bacchants consisting of maenads, satyrs, musicians, children, and a goat, all within an Italian landscape. This drawing may have been a design for a fresco or painting. Depictions of bacchanalia were often meant for dining spaces, where the elite of society could playfully mirror the revelries portrayed in their own enjoyment of food and wine.
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection, 1954.688
Registry history
- mid-1600s — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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