TitleL'Infant Bacchus
Artist
Henry Siddons Mowbray
(1858 - 1928)
Date1880
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 52 1/2 × 42 1/2 in.
Framed: 56 1/8 × 46 1/8 × 2 1/4 in.
SignedSigned lower right: "H. S. Mowbray / 1880"
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, October 25, 1891
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number900-P
Label TextMowbray began this work in Léon Bonnat’s Paris atelier in the fall of 1880, after becoming, in his words, "seized with an inordinate desire to paint something for the Salon." The artist wrote that he "found all the characteristics of a young Bacchus in one of the small Italian models that hovered around the Atelier, and forthwith set to work. I painted the model with all his gaucheries and with the approved realism of the school.” Set in a vineyard landscape, the nude youth is identified as the Roman god of wine by the wreath of grape leaves on his head and the drinking urn that rests against his leg.Collections
- 19th Century Highlights from the Collection
