Bacchanal with young Bacchus grasping grapes in his raised left hand; at left a satyr, putti, and a donkey crowd around Bacchus; at right a she-goat suckles a child and women pass a bowl; from a series of twelve frieze-like designs showing bacchanals, sacrifices, and dances

About the Artist

Pierre Brebiette|François Langlois · 1598–1642

Pierre Brébiette (c. 1598–c. 1642) was a French painter and etcher whose elegant, sensuous treatment of classical mythology and allegory earned him a significant reputation in early seventeenth-century Paris. Born in Mantes-sur-Seine, Brébiette traveled to Italy as a young man and lived and worked in Rome from around 1617 to approximately 1625, absorbing the influences of ancient sculpture, Renais...