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Bacchus and Ariadne

c. 1880

John La Farge

(American, 1835–1910)
Culture
America
Medium
red chalk (rubbed in places)
Support
Cream(1) wove paper
Measurements
Image: 41 x 36.8 cm (16 1/8 x 14 1/2 in.); Sheet: 52.9 x 42.6 cm (20 13/16 x 16 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Dudley P. Allen Fund 1954.360
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
Print

Description

In the early 1880s, John La Farge worked with a team of artists, including the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907), to produce decorations for the home of the American industrialist Cornelius Vanderbilt. La Farge's designs made many allusions to the art of the Italian Renaissance and to the splendid decorations created for the Medici banking family in Florence. In this drawing he used a medium common in Italian drawings—red chalk—in self-conscious emulation of Renaissance practice.

Bacchus and Ariadne

c. 1880

John La Farge

(American, 1835–1910)
America

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