ECL-Bm.9:38-2013
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bm.9:38-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Relief of a base
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
In Museo Archeologico, Venice inv. 263
Description
Content (description)
The drawing shows a wide central panel flanked by the two narrower side panels.
left side: a youth, wearing a skin across his chest, leans on the shoulder of a female seated to right and playing a lyre, turning her head back to the youth.
Front: symposium. On a couch or rocks covered with skins, a youth reclines, holding a cup and with his right arm in the air. In the centre a nude satyr sits to left, where a nude female sits between his legs, stretching her right arm towards him and raising a cup aloft in her left hand.
R. side: a nude satyr and a female embrace and kiss on a rock mound.
left side: a youth, wearing a skin across his chest, leans on the shoulder of a female seated to right and playing a lyre, turning her head back to the youth.
Front: symposium. On a couch or rocks covered with skins, a youth reclines, holding a cup and with his right arm in the air. In the centre a nude satyr sits to left, where a nude female sits between his legs, stretching her right arm towards him and raising a cup aloft in her left hand.
R. side: a nude satyr and a female embrace and kiss on a rock mound.
Content (object)
relief
plinth
plinth
Content (note)
Relief decoration of a base
Dimensions
height (actual size): 269mm
width (actual size): 417mm
width (actual size): 417mm
Inscription
e Bibliotheca Sti Marci Venetiis written in ink on the back of the drawing.
'C' written in ink on the back of the drawing
'C' written in ink on the back of the drawing
Materials & techniques note
pen and black ink on paper
Production
Person
Unknown (Artist)
Date
c.1710-1730
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• Anti (Sala VI. 19)
