Drunken Faun, Museo at Naples

1892

Marietta Minnigerode Andrews

Associated Names
Marietta Minnigerode Andrews

Artist, American, 1869 - 1931

This image depicts a sculpture of a faun holding an amphora, displayed in a museum. The faun is portrayed in a relaxed pose, with human and goat-like features. The sculpture appears to be made of bronze and is in shades of gray, blue, and green. The faun's upper body is leaning forward, looking down, and there is a sense of movement in the posture and interaction with the vessel. The inscription on the drawing mentions it as "Bronze from Pompeii" and specifies the museum as "Museo at Naples."

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mrs. Armistead Peter, III (Caroline Ogden-Jones), Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1976; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1983

  • Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 150, no. 1012.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: Drunken Faun, / Museo at Naples - / (Bronze from Pompeii

Wikidata ID

Q64595301

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