ECL-Bm.4:104-2012
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bm.4:104-2012
Object type
Identification
Title
Statue group: Bacchic grape harvest
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
Palazzo d'Altemps Added in pencil in Sampson catalogue: (Polignac)
Fa 3 no. 15 (?) formerly Fa 2 no. 15
Fa 3 no. 15 (?) formerly Fa 2 no. 15
Other number
Fa 3 no. 15 (?)
Description
Content (description)
In centre a vine grows round a tree trunk, with a profusion of grapes at the top. On left Silenus, with skin draped across him and wearing a vine garland, reaches up with one foot raised on the tree trunk to pick grapes. There is a shell-like bowl by his knee to hold the grapes. A child perches at the top of the tree with a basket. On right a male draped in skins is partly concealed by the trunk so that it is not clear what he is doing. A child bottom right offers grapes to a tiger; another bottom left holds leg of Silenus and drinks from a shell: he seems to be sitting on a tortoise. A snake rears up the trunk of the tree from a cluster of leaves. The rocky ground beneath the group has a grotesque head marked on the border at centre front.
Content (object)
statue
Dimensions
height (actual size): 377mm
width (actual size): 306mm
width (actual size): 306mm
Inscription
Un gruppo di alcuni fanciulli baccanti in Palazzo d'Altemps in Roma
Materials & techniques note
red chalk and black lead pencil on paper
Production
Person
Castelli, Filippo (Artist)
Date
c.1710-1730
History and association
Previous ownership
