AT-00010722
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Bacchante
About the Artwork
The French sculptor Auguste Clésinger spent much of his life in Rome, where this bust was created in 1863. He is particularly noted for the creation of sensual subjects in marble, such as this obviously inebriated Bacchante, a female companion of Bacchus, the Roman god of wine.
Inscriptions
signed below, on back of bust: J. Clésinger / Rome / 1836.
Provenance
[Heim Gallery, London]
Exhibition history
Year in Review: 1979. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-March 9, 1980).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean-Baptiste Clésinger (French, 1814–1883)
- Date
- 1863
- Medium
- marble
- Dimensions
- Overall: 88 x 44.5 x 37.5 cm (34 5/8 x 17 1/2 x 14 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- The Thomas L. Fawick Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1979.38
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