Bacchante

Cleveland Museum of Art

Bacchante

Jean-Baptiste Clésinger

Date
1863
Medium
marble
Culture
France, 19th century
Department
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art

The French sculptor Auguste Clésinger spent much of his life in Rome, where this bust was created in 1863. He is particularly noted for the creation of sensual subjects in marble, such as this obviously inebriated Bacchante, a female companion of Bacchus, the Roman god of wine.

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