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ECL-Bm.9:38-2013

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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.

Content (object)

relief
plinth

Content (note)

Relief decoration of a base

Dimensions

height (actual size): 269mm
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

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)
image 147185
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