Cleveland Museum of Art

Bacchus and Ariadne

John La Farge

Date

c. 1880

Medium

red chalk (rubbed in places)

Culture

America

Department

Drawings

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

In the early 1880s, John La Farge worked with a team of artists, including the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907), to produce decorations for the home of the American industrialist Cornelius Vanderbilt. La Farge's designs made many allusions to the art of the Italian Renaissance and to the splendid decorations created for the Medici banking family in Florence. In this drawing he used a medium common in Italian drawings—red chalk—in self-conscious emulation of Renaissance practice.

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