Anacreon with the infants Bacchus and Cupid

Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904)


Item type:
sculpture
Height:
72.0 cm  (28 3/8 in.)
Width:
32.0 cm  (12 5/8 in.)
Depth:
29.0 cm  (11 7/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
bronze

    Item location

  • Art Institute of Chicago
    [Museum inv. no.: 1893.287]Gift of Gustave Leblanc Barbedienne

Description

Anacreon holding Bacchus and Cupid and carrying a lyre strapped to his back.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lyre [3501]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Owens, Margareth Boyer. Art Institute of Chicago. RIdIM/RCMI inventory of music iconography, no. 2. Edited by Terence Ford (New York: Research Center for Musical Iconography, 1987) 333sc93. RILM 1988-275.

RIdIM record id

1689