Éducation de Bacchus (Education of Bacchus)
Unknown French, French
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
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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