Bacchus and Ariadne (Sketch for "Autumn" of "The Four Seasons")

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1994.61
People: Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, French (Charenton Saint-Maurice France 1798 - 1863 Paris France)
Title: Bacchus and Ariadne (Sketch for "Autumn" of "The Four Seasons")
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: 19th century
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/226891

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 61.5 x 50.5 cm (24 3/16 x 19 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Virginia Herrick Deknatel, Cambridge, MA, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1994, inv. no. 1994.61

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Virginia Herrick Deknatel in memory of Frederick Brockway Deknatel
Accession Year: 1994
Object Number: 1994.61
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Narayan Khandekar, Sarah Kianovsky, and Katherine Eremin, "Delacroix's 'Bacchus and Ariadne'", The Burlington Magazine, The Burlington Magazine Publications, Ltd. (London, April 2015), vol. 157, no. 1345, pp. 255-58, pp. 255, 255 n. 4, 257-58, fig. 30, repr.

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