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Object Type
Museum number: 1900,0611.3
Description: A bacchanal, in a pendentive, after Primaticcio; a group of semi-nude figures with Bacchus at the centre seated around a table, two men standing seen from behind, flanked by two putti seated on lionesses Pen and brown ink, with grey-brown wash
Producer name
School/style: Bolognese; French
Production date: 1519-1570
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 187 millimetres; Width: 275 millimetres
Curator's comments: Copy after a spandrel between the windows in the Salle de Bal, Palace of Fontainebleau. Monroe Warshaw (email 5 March 2009) suggests it is the work of an artist in the circle of Frans Floris.
Location: Not on display
Subjects: classical mythology; feast/banquet; classical deity
Associated names
Acquisition name
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Commendatore Genevosio (L.545); Previous owner/ex-collection: Sir Thomas Lawrence (L.2445)
Acquisition date: 1900
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1900,0611.3

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