Bacchante
Maker
Frederick William MacMonnies
(American, 1863-1937)
Collections
ClassificationsSCULPTURE
Daten.d.
Mediumbronze
Dimensionsheight: 59 1/2 in. (151.1 cm.)
DescriptionThis sculpture portrays a bacchante, a follower of Bacchus, the god of wine in Greek and Roman Greek and Roman mythology. The bacchante is carrying a child and holding grapes in her right hand. The sculpture was added to the Tomei Albiani fountain in 1920.
Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Status
On viewObject number20.10
William Blake
ca. 1814-1816
Object number: 000.17
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