Bacchanal
Pierre Brebiette
1615–42 · Etching · Drawings and Prints

- Artist
- Pierre Brebiette
- Date
- 1615–42
- Medium
- Etching
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985
Pierre Brebiette
1615–42 · Etching · Drawings and Prints

Ceres sows seeds and walks behind a goat-drawn plough, at right a man draped with a lion skin grasps a woman's garment and a female satyr receives an embrace from another figure, from a series of twelve frieze-like designs showing bacchanals, sacrifices, and dancesPierre Brebiette|François Langlois
BacchanalPierre Brebiette
"Les Grandes Frises" (6 of 12)Pierre Brebiette
Composition of figures arranged in a landscape foreground before a statue of a female goddess, at left two nude figures support a nude woman riding a goat led by a putto, at center a draped woman holds one finger to her eye behind a satyr holding a bow, at right Mercury twists away from the satyr, from a series of twelve frieze-like designs showing bacchanals, sacrifices, and dancesPierre Brebiette|François Langlois
BacchanalPierre Brebiette
Composition of figures between a Pan herm and a sculpted bust: at left putti carry grapevines, at center a satyr supports Silenus upon a leopard skin, at right a satyr shoes a donkey, from a series of twelve frieze-like designs showing bacchanals, sacrifices, and dancesPierre Brebiette|François Langlois
BacchanalPierre Brebiette
BacchanalPierre Brebiette
Procession of draped women leading captives and animals, at left Envy rides a lion, at right Silenus rides a donkey, from a series of twelve frieze-like designs showing bacchanals, sacrifices, and dancesPierre Brebiette|François Langlois
Composition with three figure groups: at left a woman struggles with a male assailant, at center a female satyr and male satryr sit upon a pedestal, at right putti surround two young satyrs riding a goat, from a series of twelve frieze-like designs showing bacchanals, sacrifices, and dancesPierre Brebiette|François Langlois
BacchanalPierre Brebiette
Wall or Ceiling Decoration with a Young Man (Phaeton?) in a horse-drawn ChariotAnonymous, Italian, Bolognese 18th century artist