A centaur with the infant Bacchus. Engraving by P. Pontius after Sir P.P. Rubens.

  • Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640.
Date:
1600-1699
Reference:
2822704i
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Description

The statue formerly in Villa Borghese, Rome, latterly in the Louvre, was drawn by Rubens in Rome on two occasions between 1600 and 1608 (Haskell and Penny loc. cit.) In contrast to some other views of the statue, Rubens shows the child wreathed in grape-vines, without arms and without wings (and therefore more like the infant Dionysus and less like Cupid), and vivifies the two figures, while still representing them as a statue

Publication/Creation

1600-1699

Physical description

1 print : engraving

Contributors

References note

F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the antique. The lure of classical sculpture 1500-1900, New Haven and London 1981, pp. 179-180 (on the statue)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2822704i

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