Arion on a sea horse

Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1855

Height:

71.3 cm  (28 1/16 in.)

Width:

111.8 cm  (44 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on fabric

Description

From the Cleveland Museum website: "Part of a series of six paintings that decorated Etienne Bartholony's house in Paris, these paintings emulate ancient Roman designs. Crisp, cut-out forms are set against a gold background painted in imitation of mosaic. Arion was an ancient Greek poet who escaped death by riding away on the back of a sea creature who had been attracted by the poet's song. In the companion picture, a bacchante---a female worshipper of the wine god Bacchus---rides a panther, the god's symbolic animal. These works were shown at the 1857 Paris Salon exhibition."

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Barbiton [3487]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

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RIdIM record id

2067