Bacchanal: Arrival at the Wine Vat

Bacchanal: Arrival at the Wine Vat by Joseph Marie Vien

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 · 17161809

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

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