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Bacchante
Auguste Clésinger1863
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
The French sculptor Auguste Clésinger spent much of his life in Rome, where this bust was created in 1863. He is particularly noted for the creation of sensual subjects in marble, such as this obviously inebriated Bacchante, a female companion of Bacchus, the Roman god of wine.
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- Title: Bacchante
- Creator: Jean-Baptiste Clésinger (French, 1814-1883)
- Date Created: 1863
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 88 x 44.5 x 37.5 cm (34 5/8 x 17 1/2 x 14 3/4 in.)
- Provenance: [Heim Gallery, London]
- Type: Sculpture
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1979.38
- Medium: marble
- Inscriptions: signed below, on back of bust: J. Clésinger / Rome / 1836.
- Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit Line: The Thomas L. Fawick Memorial Collection
- Collection: Mod Euro - Sculpture 1800-1960
- Accession Number: 1979.38
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