Live auction - Lot 79
[Italian school]
The triumph of Silenos.
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
Ca. 1600
Drawing, pen and black ink with grey wash, 35 x 53,5 cm, laid paper, unsigned (laid down on cardb., large vert. folding crease at centre, several brown stains, upper and lower left corners torn).
A vivid depiction of festivities in honour of Bacchus, with at the left centre a representation of the drunken Silenos. Satyrs are playing flute and a chariot with Ariadne is pulled by leopards. A wide variety of gods associated with astrological signs occupies the skies above the Bacchanal. Probably Italian.
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