Sculpture

Bacchante

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Type: Sculpture(Opens in new tab)
Date: n.d.
Accession number: 20.10
Maker: Frederick William MacMonnies(Opens in new tab) (American, 1863–1937)
Dimensions: height: 59 1/2 in. (151.1 cm.)
Medium: bronze
Description: This sculpture portrays a bacchante, a follower of Bacchus, the god of wine in Greek and Roman Greek and Roman mythology. The bacchante is carrying a child and holding grapes in her right hand. The sculpture was added to the Tomei Albiani fountain in 1920.
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Department: American Art
Find out more: View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)

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