print
- Museum number
- 1861,1109.785
- Title
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Object: Orphée tué par les Baccantes
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Series: Impostures Innocentes
- Description
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Death of Orpheus, after Nicolas Poussin; Bacchanalia set in a landscape, with , in the middleground, a group of Bacchantes gathered before Orpheus, who lies on the ground and seems to be imploring them; in the foreground, women drinking at centre, and two women with thyrsus standing at right. 1724
Etching
- Production date
- 1724
- Dimensions
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Height: 205 millimetres
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Width: 335 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From 'Impostures innocentes', see 1868,0612.1397 for comment.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1861
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1861,1109.785
