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Feste de Bacchus (Festival of Bacchus from, Bacchannales or the Quatre Festes)

Claude GillotLinkedCulture matchlcp-c87dad8c2dd4

Date: c.1693-1722
Medium: Etching on paper
Culture: France
Department: Prints and Drawings
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 31681

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Claude Gillot’s four-etching series of riotous woodland bacchanals celebrates Bacchus, Pan, fauns, and the nymph Diana (see 1969.279–81). As stylistic precursors to the French Rococo with a deep interest in theater, Gillot’s prints are satirical and revolve around ancient sculpture. The young Bacchus appears here as the devotional focal point, his head atop a herm (a stone pillar topped with a carved head or bust, sometimes with a phallus) festooned with flowers and fruit. The bas-relief hanging above shows the god discovering his future wife, Ariadne, while the text below teasingly suggests that enough wine will solve all romantic problems.

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