Silenus holding the infant Bacchus. Crayon manner print by J.F. Cazenave after Eugène Bourgeois.

Date:
[1812?]
Reference:
3087270i
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Silenus holding the infant Bacchus. Crayon manner print by J.F. Cazenave after Eugène Bourgeois. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Publication/Creation

A Paris (rue St Jacques no. 64) : chez Basset, [1812?]

Physical description

1 print : crayon manner ; platemark 62.5 x 43.5 cm

Lettering

Faune. Figure d'étude apres l'antique. Faisan partie de la collection du Musée Royal. Dessiné par Eugène Bourgeois pensionnaire de S.M. ; Gravé par Casenave. Déposé au Bureau d'Estampes.

Notes

Title devised by cataloguer

References note

Not found in Bibliographie de la France. The issue for 26 juin 1812, no. 456 does not mention this print, but mentions the print catalogued by Adhémar as its pair: "L'Amour et Psyché, dessinés par Bourgeois, d'après l'antique du Musée Napoléon, et gravés par Cazenave, à la manière du crayon noir. A Paris, chez Basset, rue Saint-Jacques." (Image of France database no. 2855)
Jean Adhémar, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome IV, Paris 1949 p. 180, no. 18 (Deux antiques, d'apr. Eugène Bourgeois, chez Basset, vers 1810 : L'Amour... ; Faune...")
F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the antique. The lure of classical sculpture 1500-1900, New Haven and London 1981, no. 77 pp. 306-307 (on the statue)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 3087270i

Reproduction note

After a sculpture formerly in the Borghese collection, Rome, which was acquired by Napoleon and sent to Paris ca. 1808-1811; subsequently in the Musée du Louvre

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