The Feast of Bacchus
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed): 9 3/16 × 10 7/16 in. (23.4 × 26.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.600.1084
Tags
Art Historical Context
Behold *The Feast of Bacchus (ca. 1738), a lively etching and engraving from the Metropolitan Museum of's Drawings and Prints collection. This print bears the names of Parisian print publisher Chez Huquier, engraver Pierre Alexandre Avel, and renowned Rococo painter François Boucher, who likely supplied the exuberant design. Depicting the Roman god of wine, Bacchus (Dionysus in Greek mythology), amid a riotous feast with animals frolicking in the scene, it captures the god's mythical revelry in a compact sheet measuring just over 9 by 10 inches. Created during the height of the French Rococo ...
About the Artist
Chez Huquier|Pierre Alexandre Aveline|François Boucher (French|French) · 1703 |0018 –1770 |0018
French, Paris 1703–1770 Paris|French, 18th century