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Anacreon with the Infants Bacchus and Cupid
Jean Léon Gérôme (French, 1824–1904)LinkedCulture matchlcp-ffce822b64bd
- Date
- Modeled 1878, cast c. 1893
- Medium
- Bronze
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 729
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
In the early 19th century, industrial approaches to production created a new middle-class market for small-scale bronze statuettes, which were displayed in domestic interiors. This statuette is a reduced version of a larger-than-life composition depicting the ancient Greek poet Anacreon cradling Bacchus and Cupid. As the god of wine and pleasure, the infant Bacchus is wreathed in vine leaves and holds a bunch of grapes. Cupid, god of love, bears feathered wings and presses his cheek to the poet’s. French bronze foundry Barbedienne reproduced this popular work in five different sizes.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Gustave Leblanc Barbedienne
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- Object type
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