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Bacchus avec une Panthère. Vatican
Creator
James AndersonBritish Photographer · 1813–1877
All works by this person →James Anderson was born Isaac Atkinson in Blencarn, Cumberland, England and studied painting in Paris as William Nugent Dunbar. In 1838 he moved to Rome and began to produce sculpture as James Anderson, which remained his professional name. Eleven years later he took up photography, opening a studio in Rome in 1853. Anderson specialized in reproductions of works of art, publishing frequent catalog
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- 1859
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- British
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 311a9302-4278-4b0a-b0b7-5b130120c09a
What the image shows
The statue depicts a bearded man holding a staff over his shoulder, standing next to a panther. The figure is nude except for a loincloth, and the panther is positioned on the base, facing left. The setting appears to be indoors, possibly within a museum, as indicated by the dark background and the pedestal.
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From the Getty Museum record
Photograph of a statue of Silenus and a panther in the Vatican Museums' collection. The statue depicts Silenus, tutor to Dionysus or Bacchus, as a nude, elderly male figure. He holds up an unidentified object over his head, while looking downward at a panther next to him.
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- Vatican Museums — Vatican CityMatched from the record’s own words: “Bacchus avec une Panthère. Vatican”
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