Three male bacchants playing musical instruments dance from right to left with three maenads. Etching attributed to H. Hopfer after A. Veneziano.

Date:
[between 1520 and 1529?]
Reference:
2822675i
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Publication/Creation

[Augsburg?] : [publisher not identified], [between 1520 and 1529?]

Physical description

1 print : etching ; platemark 17.8 x 35 cm

Contributors

Lettering

I. H Bears number: 22

References note

Adam Bartsch, Le peintre graveur,Vienna 1808, VIII, p. 513, H. Hopfer no. 29 ("Une danse de trois faunes et de trois Bacchantes au son d'instrumens")
Stefania Massari, Giulio Romano pinxit et delineavit, Roma: Palombi, 1993, no. 7, pp. 13-15

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2822675i

Creator/production credits

"Ce morceau est une copie d'après une estampe d'Augustin Venitien, qui vient d'après un bas-relief antique [...]" (Bartsch, loc. cit.). Agostino's immediate source may have been a drawing which has been variously ascribed to Raphael, Battista Franco, and Giulio Romano (Massari, loc. cit.)

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