Bacchanale with Children and Donkey
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
19th century
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 9/16 x 11 5/8 in. (21.8 x 29.6 cm) Plate: 4 7/16 x 5 3/4 in. (11.3 x 14.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1966
Accession Number
66.689.1
Tags
ChildrenDonkeys
About the Artist
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux · 1827–1875
Carpeaux's exuberant work was a decisive break from Neoclassical art. He won the Prix de Rome in 1854 and received many portrait bust commissions from the court. His most famous sculpture group is 'La Danse' (1869) made for the Paris Opéra. So bold is its message of bacchanalian revelry that it was vandalized in protest. French artist.