Bacchus with Ariadne or a nymph. Colour etching by S. Mulinari after G.L. Valesio.

  • Valesio, Giovanni Luigi, approximately 1583-approximately 1650.
Date:
1766
Reference:
3015555i
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Description

They recline naked on a rock by the shore, as indicated by the sea shells on the ground. Bacchus wears a vine wreath on his head

Publication/Creation

1766

Physical description

1 print : etching and tone, printed in brown ; image and border 21.2 x 19.5 cm

Lettering

Giovanni Valesi inv. e. del. SMulinari inci.

References note

R. Weigel, Die Werke der Maler in ihren Handzeichnungen, Leipzig: R. Weigel, 1865, no. 8463, p. 723 ("Bacchus und Ariadne ... Mulinari, Disegni originali nella Galleria di Firenze 5")

Reference

Wellcome Collection 3015555i

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