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A frieze relief panel of a bacchanalian scene depicting five figures with two children and dog. The cast is after the original Roman marble relief, made in 50 AD and now in the Museo Nazionale, Naples. On the far left, a muscular male strides forward with his left leg forward, his back turned to the spectator, carrying a large open-topped vessel on his left shoulder, wearing an animal skin loincloth loosely tied at the waist. To his right is a female maenad, dressed in a diaphanous gown, holding her arms above her head with a pair of small cymbals (?) in her hands. Next to her is a naked male child, looking to his left with his left arm outstretched, his right arm broken at the elbow. A naked Bacchus stands to his right, with a diaphanous drape across his thighs and knees, his head turned almost in profile to his left, holding in his right hand a thyrsus (a wand tipped with a pine cone – an ancient fertility symbol), his left arm around the shoulders of Ampelos.
Title
Bacchanalian Scene
Date
1775–1850
Medium
plaster & paint
Measurements
H 57 x W 80 x D 5 cm
Accession number
128672
Acquisition method
possibly acquired by John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset
Work type
Relief