Full Record |
| Title |
Youthful Bacchus |
| Collection |
New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester |
| Artist |
Attributed to Carracci, Annibale (Italian painter, 1560-1609) |
| Date Earliest |
about 1580 |
| Date Latest |
1606 |
| Description |
The small oil painting depicts a half-length figure of the young Bacchus, the Roman god of wine. Bacchus is slightly inebriated and gazes sweetly at a glass of wine, his head crowned with vine leaves. The painting appears to have been cut down and its sketchy character indicates that it may have been a preliminary work. On stylistic grounds it has been attributed to Annibale Carracci, the most gifted of a family of painters, who achieved great success in the late sixteenth century with his frescoes on the theme of the Loves of the Gods for the Farnese Palace in Rome. |
| Current Accession Number |
L.F17.1967.0.0 |
| Former Accession Number |
17 A 1967 |
| Subject |
figure; mythology (Bacchus); still life |
| Measurements |
46.4 x 36.1 cm cm (estimate) |
| Material |
oil on canvas |
| Acquisition Details |
Purchased from P. and D. Colnaghi 1967, £1,000. |
| Publications |
Osborne, A., (ed.), On View, 1967-68, vol. 2, p. 42, ill. pp. 40-41; Wright, C., Old Master Paintings in Britain: An Index of Continental Old Master Paintings Executed before c.1800 in Public Collections in the United Kingdom, London, 1976, p. 34. |
| Notes |
The painting is not included in the monograph by D. Posner, Annibale Carracci, London, 1971. |
| Rights Owner |
Leicester City Museums Service |
| Author |
Dr Angela Smith |
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