ECL-Bm.10:23-2013
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bm.10:23-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Bacchic sarcophagus
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
Bm 10. 22 and 23 are catalogued together being continuous drawings of the same sarcophagus
Description
Content (description)
In the centre stands Dionysus, half-draped and wearing a vinewreath, with his arm round Ariadne on left. She is draped and holds a thyrsus. From behind Dionysus, a bearded male, wearing a loin cloth, moves to right, where a satyr empties a wineskin into a garlanded krater, watched by a panther on right, sitting with its forepaw raised. Three satyrs stand in the background, one of them holding a jug and a cup. Two smaller satyrs approach from left, one blowing a trumpet. On far left two maenads move right, one playing crotola, the other carrying a vase. Then Pan, with a wreath across his torso and a skin tied round his waist, moves right but looks at the spectator. A maenad behind him in the background also looks at the viewer. A fourth maenad moves right, playing the tympanum by Ariadne.
Content (object)
drawing
Dimensions
height (actual size): 410mm
width (actual size): 274 (double)mm
width (actual size): 274 (double)mm
Inscription
Campiglia Marmor in Monte Palatino nuper effossum et nunc in aedibus Cardinalis de Polignac asservatum written in ink on the back of the drawing
Inscription description
C.D.P written in pencil on the front of the drawing lower left
Materials & techniques note
black lead pencil on paper
Production
Person
Date
c.1710-1730
History and association
Previous ownership
