Young Bacchus
Workshop of Pietro da Barga, Italian, active 1574 - 1588
about 1580
Bronze
Overall: 11 7/8 × 4 3/16 × 3 11/16 in. (30.2 × 10.7 × 9.3 cm)
Weight: 1092 g (2.4 lb.)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Roger Arvid Anderson Collection; acquired through a gift from Evelyn A. and William B. Jaffe, Class of 1964H, by exchange
2016.63.8
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Sculpture
Research Area
Sculpture
On view
Course History
HIST 43.02, European Intellectual and Cultural History 1400-1800, Darrin McMahon, Fall 2019
ARTH 27.02, Living Stone: Sculpture in Early Modern Italy, Elizabeth Kassler-Taub, Winter 2022
HIST 43.02, European Intellectual History 1400-1800, Darrin McMahon, Fall 2022
Exhibition History
European Bronzes from the Collection of Roger Arvid Anderson, Class of 1968, Gene Y. Kim, Class of 1985, Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 19, 1996-June 22, 1997, no. 33.
Living with Sculpture: Presence and Power in Europe, 1400–1750, Citrin Family Gallery and Engles Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 23, 2024–March 22, 2025.
Publication History
Roger Arvid Anderson, The Roger Arvid Anderson Collection, Medals, Medallions, Plaquettes and Small Reliefs, Paintings, Sculpture, Works on Paper and Textiles, San Francisco: Roger Arvid Anderson (published privately), design by David L. Wilson, 2015, p. 270.
Leo Planiscig, Collezione Camillo Castiglioni, Catalogo dei Bronzi, Vienna, no. 71, 1923.
Leo Planiscig, Die ronzeplastiken, Statuietten, Reliefs, Gerate und Plaketten, Kunsthistoriesches Museum in Wien, 1924, abb. 242, h. 23.7 cm (once in the Guido von Rho Collection, cat. Braun XVb.)
R. Varese, Placchette e bronzi nelle Civiche Collezioni, Ferrara, 1974-75, no. 148.
Natur und Antike in der Renaissance, Liebighaus, Frankfurt, exhibition catalogue, 1986, no. 135, pp. 437-38, h. 24.5 cm with wooden socle.
Trinity Fine Art, Old Master Drawings and European Works of Art, at Newhouse Galleries, New York, 1994, no. 48, h. 21.5 cm. partial gilt.
Provenance
Camillo Castiglioni (1879-1957) Collection, Vienna, before 1925; sold Frederik Muller & Co., Amsterdam, 18 November 1925, lot no. 71; possibly with Trinity Fine Art, Old Master Drawings and European Works of Art, at Newhouse Galleries, New York, New York, 1994, no. 48; Roger Arvid Anderson, San Francisco, California about 1995; lent to present collection,1995; sold to present collection, 2016.
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