Bacchus

Bacchus

Item Information

Title:
Bacchus
Description:
Three maenads are dancing in a landscape. They move by spinning from right to left. The first, on the far left, is almost invisible. The second is seen from the back and raises a thyrsi. The nearest one, in the middle, is seen from the front and dancing. The one to the far right runs with a tambourine in her hand. An amphora lies in the foreground.
Artist:
Fantin-Latour, Henri, 1836-1904
Name on Item:
H. Fantin
Date:
1903
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Lithographs
Book illustrations
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904). Lithographs and Other Prints
Subjects:
Dancers
Bacchantes
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Notes:
Title from catalogue raisonné.
Hédiard: H. 166
Additional information accompanying item: Margins not rectified. Indications of a border in crayon. Upper margin - "nos. 6" and "70." Right margin - sketch of a woman at 3/4 left, hair disheveled, a thyrsus in her hand. Lower margin - signature - "H. Fantin." 6 trial proofs. Imp. Clot. Edition of 633 impressions. An illustration for "Les Poésies d'André Chénier" in the Hérédia edition. This plate was done with the photographs of "Bacchus and Ariane" of Titian before the artist's eyes. This impression, on papier pelure (no. 19), has the monogram of the editor.
Notes (acquisition):
Gift; Albert H. Wiggin; 1949
Notes (date):
Date from catalogue raisonné.
Notes (citation):
Hédiard, Germain. "Fantin-Latour : catalogue de l'oeuvre lithographique du maître, précédé d'une étude par Germain Hédiard et d'une notice sur Germain Hédiard par Léonce Bénédite." Librairie de l'art ancien et moderne, 1906, Paris.
Notes (object):
Only state.
Identifier:
17_10_000192
Barcode:
36666000203188