ECL-Bm.8:81-2013
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bm.8:81-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Sarcophagus: bacchic procession
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
Bm 8. 81 and 82 are catalogued together being drawings of the same sarcophagus
Description
Content (description)
On left nude Dionysus, supported by a satyr and helped by a maenad, steps from his chariot, which is drawn by two centaurs with garlands round their bellies, an old one carrying a lyre and a young one with a horn. A putto holding a burning torch kneels on the back of the old centaur. On far left a satyr carries an infant Pan on his shoulder. The centaurs are preceded to right by a half-draped maenad holding a roll (?) and a bunch of grapes, a nude youth with a drape over one shoulder, brandishing his club as he dances, and Pan, prancing right but looking left and carrying a large jug.
Content (object)
drawing
Content (note)
Villa Pamfilia
Dimensions
height (actual size): 406mm
width (actual size): 534mm
width (actual size): 534mm
Inscription
Domenico Campiglia in Villa di Principe Pamfilio written in ink on the back of the drawing
Faint pencil drawings on reverse of drawing, a pyramidal column(?) and a fluted column detail (?)
Faint pencil drawings on reverse of drawing, a pyramidal column(?) and a fluted column detail (?)
Inscription description
A written in pencil on the front of the drawing lower left
1 A written in ink on the front of the drawing lower right, truncated.
In the album in which the drawings are held is written:
No. 81/No. 82 1 A 2
1 A written in ink on the front of the drawing lower right, truncated.
In the album in which the drawings are held is written:
No. 81/No. 82 1 A 2
Materials & techniques note
black lead pencil on paper
Production
Person
Date
c.1710-1730
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• Rossi
