A Faun Grasping a Bunch of Grapes

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A Faun Grasping a Bunch of Grapes

Peter Paul RubensLinkedCulture matchlcp-e595aa3a83f9

Date
after 1616–18
Medium
black chalk and brush and brown wash; framing lines in pen and black ink
Culture
Flanders
Department
Drawings
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
123095

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This drawing relates to a finished painting (now lost) by Peter Paul Rubens that depicted a faun (a woodland creature similar to a satyr) squeezing grapes into the mouth of a young Bacchus. That figure, shown here, could be Silenus, who educated Bacchus on the pleasures of wine, revelry, and nature. Rubens ran a large studio and employed numerous apprentices, one of whom may have made this copy after the original painting. As a form of instruction, Rubens added ink wash to the drawing to enhance the shading on the figure and shadows behind it. Swirling draperies like the one haphazardly worn by this faun do more than conceal, in many cases they reveal an artist's technical skill. To render folds and gathers in fabric, artists used chiaroscuro , meaning contrasting light and dark tones.

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Credit line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Provenance
Unidentified collector's mark, grey stamp "C", verso (not in Lugt) | Valerius Röver (1686-1739), Delft (Lugt 2984a-c), album 6, no. 14 | 1739-1761: his widow, Delft | 1761: with Hendrik de Leth | 1761: Johann Goll van Franckenstein (1722-1785) and his son (1750-1821), Amsterdam | -1926: Emile Wauters, Brussels (Lugt 911, lower right, in black ink) | 1926: [his sale Frederick Muller & Co., Amsterdam, 15-16 June 1926, lot 172] | 1926-1936: Henry Oppenheimer, London (Lugt 1351, not stamped); | 1936: [his sale, Christie's, London, 10, 13-14 July 1936, lot 305, cat. by K.T. Parker] | 1942: Mr. and Mrs. David Birnbaum, New York | 1943: with Mortimer Brandt Gallery, New York | 1943-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland OH, USA

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