Bacchanal: Arrival at the Wine Vat
Joseph Marie Vien
ca.1755
Medium
pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash
Dimensions
sheet: 6 5/16 x 16 9/16 in. (16 x 42 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Alain and Marie-Christine van den Broek d'Obrenan Gift, 2008
Accession Number
2008.599
Tags
Musical InstrumentsWomenPuttiSatyrs
About the Artist
Joseph Marie Vien · 1716–1809
Baroque painter and one of the earliest French painters to work in the Neo-classical style. He influenced some of the most prominent artists of heroic Neo-classicism, including his students Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Baptiste Regnault, Jean-François-Pierre Peyron, and Joseph-Benoît Suvée. Comment on works: History