Éducation de Bacchus (Education of Bacchus)

Unknown French, French

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19th century

Bronze with marble base

Overall: 14 5/8 × 13 1/2 × 7 1/2 in. (37.1 × 34.3 × 19.1 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through a gift from Jane and W. David Dance, Class of 1940

S.2001.11

Geography

Place Made: France, Europe

Period

19th century

Object Name

Sculpture

Research Area

Sculpture

On view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, in bronze, lower center: EDUCATION DE BACCHUS

Label

The bronze cast sculpture of the education of the infant Bacchus, god of wine and revelry, is similarly unfinished. After making a model in clay or wax and molds in plaster, the sculptor would have cast individual parts in bronze to attach with pins. These pins still link individual components together. Next, the sculptor would have welded the pieces together and smoothed the surface before adding a patina. Paused before this final step, this sculpture captures a moment in the workshop.

From the 2024 exhibition Living with Sculpture: Presence and Power in Europe, 1400–1750, curated by Elizabeth Rice Mattison, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Academic Programming and Curator of European Art, and Ashley B. Offill, Curator of Collections

Course History

ARTH 27.02, Living Stone: Sculpture in Early Modern Italy, Elizabeth Kassler-Taub, Winter 2022

History 42.01, Women's Gender, and Sexuality Studies 22.01, Gender & European Society, Patrick Meehan, Spring 2024

History 96.39, Saints and Relics, Cecilia Gaposchkin, Spring 2024

Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Noemi Perego, Spring 2024

Italian 11.01, Intensive Italian, Floriana Ciniglia, Spring 2024

Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Floriana Ciniglia, Spring 2024

Italian 3.01, Introductory Italian III, Tania Convertini, Spring 2024

Italian 3.02, Introductory Italian III, Giorgio Alberti, Spring 2024

Exhibition History

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.

The Beauty of the Bronze: Selections from the Hood Museum of Art, Gene Y. Kim Class of 1985 Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 13, 2012-March 18, 2014.

Provenance

Trebosc van Lelyveld Fine Arts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; sold to present collection, 2001.

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