Bacchante on a Panther

The Cleveland Museum of Art · Bequest of Noah L. Butkin

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Bacchante on a Panther

1855

ArtistWilliam Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825–1905)

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Medium: oil on fabric
Dimensions: Framed: 87.3 x 127 x 5.4 cm (34 3/8 x 50 x 2 1/8 in.); Unframed: 71.4 x 111.3 cm (28 1/8 x 43 13/16 in.)
Classification: Painting
Style: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
Origin: France, 19th century
Institution: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit: Bequest of Noah L. Butkin

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Commissioned by Anatole Bartholoni, Paris. Paris sale, Drouot, 27 April 1933 (lot 32), Arion chevauc...

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Commissioned by Anatole Bartholoni, Paris. Paris sale, Drouot, 27 April 1933 (lot 32), Arion chevauchant un monstre marin (lot 33), Bacchante sur une panthère (repr.), Shepherd Gallery, New York, 1972. Christopher Gibbs Ltd., London, 1973. London sale, Sotheby's, 30 November 1977 (lot 208), Arion sur un dauphin; Bacchante sur une panthère (repr.), £6500. Noah L. Butkin, Cleveland. Bequeathed to the CMA in 1980

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Heroines

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Heroines. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain (organizer) (March 8-June 12, 2011). Paris, Palais des Champs-Élysées. Salon (1857), no. 327, Arion sur un cheval marin, no. 328, Bacchante sur une panthère. New York Cultural Center. William Adolphe Bouguereau (1974-75), 20. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid (3/8/2011 - 6/12/2011): "Heroines"

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Part of a series of six paintings that decorated Etienne Bartholony's house in Paris, these paintings emulate ancient Roman designs. Crisp, cut out forms are set against a gold background painted in imitation of mosaic. Arion was an ancient Greek poet who escaped death by riding away on the back of a sea creature who had been attracted by the poet's song. In the companion picture, a bacchante—a female worshipper of the wine god Bacchus—rides on a panther, the god's symbolic animal. These works were shown at the 1857 Paris Salon exhibition.

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