- Museum number
- 1860,0616.53
- Description
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Triumph of Bacchus in a temple; Bacchus at centre sitting on a chariot pulled by two goats, an attendant pouring wine, nude male and female figures and putti forming a procession through the temple, playing musical instruments and carrying jars of wine, at right a putto aiming his bow and arrow at a female, columns and arches of the temple's interior receding into the background, in the immediate foreground a vine branch and grapes on a slab of stone and to right a vase and a broken column with putto sleeping against it
Pen and brown ink, brown wash
- Production date
- 1520-1530 (c)
- Dimensions
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Height: 243 millimetres
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Width: 335 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Comparable to the 'Flagellation' in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York (Dufour Denison no. 3) which is preparatory for an unfinished engraving dated 1526, a unique impression of which is in the BM (1845,0909.1567)
Lit.: J. Cordey, 'Les dessins français des XVe et XVIIe siècles au British Museum', "Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français", 1932, p. 14; C. Dufour Denison, in exhib. cat., Paris, Musée du Louvre and New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, 'Le dessin français: chefs-d'oeuvre de la Pierpont Morgan Library', 1993, under no. 3; H. Kurita and M. Koshikawa, in exhib. cat., Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art and Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art, 'French drawings from the British Museum: from Fontainebleau to Versailles', 2002, no. 64
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1968 BM, Piranesi, no.3
2002, April-June, Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Mus of Art, 'French Drawings from the British Museum'
2002, July-Sep, Tokyo, NM of Western Art, 'French Drawings from the British Museum'
2015-16, Oct-Jan, Lyon, Musee des Beaux Arts, 'Renaissance in Lyon'
- Acquisition date
- 1860
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1860,0616.53
