Bacchus Feeding a Panther

Inscriptions

Signed and dated: I. DEARE FACIEBAT ROMAE 1792

Provenance

Commissioned by Edward Poore, England, 1792, and completed in 1794 [according to Whitten 1920 and Fogelman, et al 2000]; sold, Edward Poore estate sale, Mr. Richardson’s, London, 20 April 1805, lot 76, to a private collector. Sold, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 29 November 1975, lot 133, to Shepherd Gallery, New York; sold to Luke Burnap, New York, 8 July 1976 [according to notes from telephone conversation with Robert Kashey of Shepherd Gallery, 3 March 2003, in curatorial file]; sold to a private collector through Shepherd Gallery, New York, 1982 [according to source cited above]; bought in, Sotheby's, New York, 23 September 1998, lot 155; sold, Sotheby’s, New York, 22 May 2001, lot 69, to the Art Institute, 2001.

Exhibition history

Art Institute of Chicago, A Case for Wine, July11—September 20, 2009, no cat. Art Institute of Chicago, Shockingly Mad: Henry Fuseli and the Art of Drawing, November 18-April 1, 2017.

Publications

Mr. Richardson, A Catalogue of Framed and Glazed Prints and Drawings from the Herculaneum of the Late Edward Poore, Esq., Deceased... (19-20 April 1805), no. 76. Wilfred Whitten, ed., Nollekens and his Times (London, 1920), p. 252. William T. Whitley, Artists and their Friends in England, 1700-1799 (London, 1928), p. 86. John Ingamells, A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy, 1701-1800 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997), p. 288. Sotheby’s, European Works of Art (23 September 1998), no. 155 (withdrawn). Peggy Fogelman, Peter Fusco, and Simon Stock, "John Deare (1759–1798): A British Neoclassical Sculptor in Rome," Sculpture Journal 4 (2000), pp. 98–99, 115, no. 23, figs. 26, 27. Ian Wardropper, "Collecting European Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago," Apollo 154, 475 (September 2001), pp. 8–9, no. 11, fig. 10.

Quick Overview

Artist: John Deare (English, 1759–1798)
Date: 1792
Medium: Marble
Dimensions: 33.3 × 52.7 × 14 cm (13 1/2 × 20 3/4 × 5 1/2 in.); Framed: 46.1 × 65.5 × 12.7 cm (18 1/8 × 25 3/4 × 5 in.)
Type: Sculpture
Classification: relief
Style: 18th Century
Place: England
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Credit line: Michael A. Bradshaw and Kenneth S. Harris Endowment
Accession no.: 2001.48

More by John Deare in museum collections

Venus and Cupid
John Deare
1789 · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00006172

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.