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Bacchanales: Nymph Astride a Satyr

Jean-Honoré FragonardLinkedCulture matchlcp-3d28f78fe6aa

Date: 1763
Medium: etching
Culture: France, 18th century
Department: Prints
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 170458

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Jean-Honoré Fragonard made these four etchings shortly after returning to Paris from Italy, where he studied antique subjects and sculpture. He may have also looked at other sources for inspiration, such as Jacques François Joseph Saly’s suite of vase designs. Though the prints feature the followers of Bacchus, the wine god does not make an appearance. Instead, Fragonard highlighted the playfully erotic frolics, conflicts, and even family life of a group of bacchants, conceiving them as low-relief sculptures on stone fragments within abundant foliage. Fragonard’s creations helped to popularize revelries in nature in French art, architecture, and garden design during the later 1700s.

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Credit line: Severance and Greta Millikin Trust
Provenance: Mr. and Mrs. R. Stanley Johnson, Chicago | ?–2012: (Susan Schulman, Printseller, New York, NY, sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) | September 4, 2012–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH