Bacchus carried on a chariot pulled by leopards, accompanied by a drunken procession of bacchants and satyrs, with Silenus and two elephants. Etching by P. Aquila after P. Berrettini da Cortona, 16--.
- Pietro, da Cortona, 1597-1669.
- Date:
- [between 1600 and 1699]
- Reference:
- 26941i
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Romae [Rome] (ad Templum Stae. Marice de Pace) : Io. Iacobi de Rubeis formis ... cum Privil. Sum. Pontif, [between 1600 and 1699]
Physical description
1 print : etching ; platemark 44.4 x 60.4 cm
Lettering
Illustrissimo Dño D. Carolo Casimiro Vintimiglia comiti Prades, Regni Siciliæ Deputato dignissimo. viro filosophiæ studiis dedito, musarum alumno, ingenuarumque artium fautori amplissimo, Petrus Aquila beneficiorum non immemor hoc opus à se delineatum et incisum cum primum licuit reverenter D. D. Petrus Beretinus Cortonensis pinxit in aedibus dominorum de Sacchettis. Pet Aqa. del et f.
Reference
Wellcome Collection 26941i
Reproduction note
After a painting called "The triumph of Bacchus" in Villa Sacchetti (subsequently Villa Chigi), Castel Fusano, near Rome
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