ECL-Bn.2:12-2013
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bn.2:12-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Relief: Dionysus on panther
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
From the Palazzo Barberini
Was Fa 2 no. 253
Was Fa 2 no. 253
Other number
Fa 3 no. 253
Description
Content (description)
Dionysus, half draped and wearing a vine wreath, reclines on the back of a panther, which bounds to right, looking back over its shoulder at the god. Dionysus carries a thyrsus and holds out a cup. An infant Pan sits beneath the panther, eating grapes. There is a large plant on right and on far right a gaping mask on a rock. Four figures in the background accompany the god to right. On right is a bearded Pan wearing a skin and holding a pipe; next is a satyr with a bunch of grapes; the third, a satyr, wears a wreath of vine leaves and grapes and carries a thyrsus, while lastly a young Pan wears a skin and carries a pipe.
Content (object)
relief
Dimensions
height (actual size): 403mm
width (actual size): 536mm
width (actual size): 536mm
Inscription
Campiglia Palazzo Barberini No. 253 written in ink on the back of the drawing
Inscription description
BN 257 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
