Bacchante with Sleeping Child

1650s

Basan

Publisher, French

Michel Dorigny

Artist, French, 1617 - 1665

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching with engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 25.8 x 19.5 cm (10 3/16 x 7 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 38.5 x 26.8 cm (15 3/16 x 10 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2005.127.10

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Robert-Dumesnil, no. 7, State undesc iii/iii

Associated Artworks

See all 12 artworks

The Elderly Silenus

Nicolas Chapron, Basan

1612

Drunken Silenus

Michel Dorigny, Basan

1617

Seated Bacchante with Children

Michel Dorigny, Basan

1617


Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1967

  • Robert-Dumesnil, A.P.F. Le peintre-graveur francais, ou catalogue raisonne des estampes gravees par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'ecole francaise, ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de M. Bartsch. Reprint (11 vols. in 6). Paris: F. deNobe

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: M. Dorigny in et fecit; lower center in plate: Cum privilegio; lower right in plate: 9.

Wikidata ID

Q76348837


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