Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011468Bacchus and Ariadne
About the Artwork
In the early 1880s, John La Farge worked with a team of artists, including the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907), to produce decorations for the home of the American industrialist Cornelius Vanderbilt. La Farge's designs made many allusions to the art of the Italian Renaissance and to the splendid decorations created for the Medici banking family in Florence. In this drawing he used a medium common in Italian drawings—red chalk—in self-conscious emulation of Renaissance practice.
Provenance
?-?: Quincy Adams Shaw [1825-1908], Boston, MA ?-?: Mrs. Graham Houghton, Boston, MA ?-1954: (Castano Gallery, Boston, MA) June 4, 1954: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
The Lessons of the Academy. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 8-May 29, 1983). American Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 19-July 12, 1998).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- John La Farge (American, 1835–1910)
- Date
- c. 1880
- Medium
- red chalk (rubbed in places)
- Dimensions
- Image: 41 x 36.8 cm (16 1/8 x 14 1/2 in.); Sheet: 52.9 x 42.6 cm (20 13/16 x 16 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Accession no.
- 1954.360
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