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Collection Online as of April 23, 2024

Bacchante

Bacchante

1863
(French, 1814–1883)
France, 19th century
marble
Overall: 88 x 44.5 x 37.5 cm (34 5/8 x 17 1/2 x 14 3/4 in.)
The Thomas L. Fawick Memorial Collection 1979.38
Location: 218 European Sculpture

Description

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.
  • [Heim Gallery, London]
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, “Thomas L. Fawick Memorial Collection is on View in Year in Review Exhibition,” February 7, 1980, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org
    Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1979." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 3 (1980): 58-99. Reproduced: cat. no. 26, p. 70; Mentioned: p. 59 www.jstor.org
    Lochhead, Stuart. A Taste for the 19th Century. 2019, 38-39. Mentioned and reporduced: pp. 38-39.
  • CMA 1980: "Year in Review 1979," Bulletin, LXVII (March, 1980), cat. #26, p. 95, repr. p. 70
    Year in Review: 1979. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-March 9, 1980).
  • {{cite web|title=Bacchante|url=false|author=Jean-Baptiste Clésinger|year=1863|access-date=23 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1979.38