Bacchante
Artist
Frederick William MacMonnies
(American, 1863 - 1937)
MakerBronze cast by
Henri-Achille Rouard
(France)
CultureAmerican
Date1894
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 32 1/2 in. (82.6 cm)
InscribedSigned & dated: "France/H.R. Rouard Fondeur".
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.1090
Not on view
DescriptionSculpture of bronze of Bacchante and an infant faun. The sculpture captures a nude young woman in exuberant motion, her right toes on the ground and her right arm holding a bunch of grapes high over her head. Her left knee pushes upward in a dancing motion, and with her left hand she secures a nude infant sitting in the crook of her elbow.Label TextFrederick William MacMonnies American, 1863–1937 Bacchante, 1894 Bronze cast by Henri-Achille Rouard, Paris, France Chrysler Museum of Art, Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.1090 Exhibition History"The Artist's Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, 1887–1920," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, June 16 - September 6, 2015.
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