A panoramic etching of several people in classical dress installing a square stone pillar with a bust on it.
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

On the left two women and a man hold up the stone pillar tipping it up onto a larger pillar where a woman stands bent, pulling a rope around the bust pillar. A push-pull action goes on between these four people. In the center, three older bearded men gather around the right of a decorative round altar-like structure with two other smaller figures to the left, one plays an instrument between two pitchers. From the right a man walks in with an ox and axe, a woman carries a jug over the shoulder, two other men play horn instruments.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2018.105
People
Louise Pithoud, French (active circa 1782)
After Jean-Guillaume Moitte, French (Paris 1746 - 1810 Paris)
Title
Male and Female Bacchants Installing a Herm
Other Titles
Former Title: Male and Female Bacchants Erecting a Statue
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1792
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/361456

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching, aquatint, and lavis manner
Technique
Etching and aquatint
Dimensions
image: 17.9 × 49.5 cm (7 1/16 × 19 1/2 in.)
sheet: 21.2 × 51.8 cm (8 3/8 × 20 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, under image: [lower left:] Dessiné par Moitte, Sculpteur, en 1792 [lower center:] A Paris chez M.r Tawunay, Rue d'Enfer, Maison de M.me Crapart, Lirbaraire, N.o 129. / Et chez Demarteau, Graveur Cloître S.t Benoît. [lower right:] Gravé par L.... P.... / N.o 11.
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: t 76321
  • inscription: verso, upper right, graphite: Ba or a 60

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Nicolaas Teeuwisse, Berlin], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2018

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints
Accession Year
2018
Object Number
2018.105
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/04/2021 - 02/28/2022

Verification Level

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