Dancing Votary of Bacchus
about 1635
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over traces of black chalk, on paper
- Dimensions
- 15.7 × 13.5 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-209544
Nicolas Poussin may have made this drawing and one other to reconstruct an ancient cameo, or he might have copied a hanging ornament from ancient Rome. Roman mythology often represented Bacchus, the god of wine, as a handsome young man and a powerful god, sometimes with a lionskin or an empty drinking vessel. In this very finished drawing, Poussin used wash in light and dark tones over pen lines to model the figure and to set it off from the background, as if it were a cameo or a relief. He commonly copied ancient objects in his drawings, using these careful records to add authentic details to his classicizing paintings.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Registry history
- about 1635 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — drawings
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