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Bacchanale with Children and Donkey
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Bacchanale with Children and Donkey

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

19th century

Medium

Etching

Tags

ChildrenDonkeys

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)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1966

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

1827–1875 • France

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.

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