1996), 11, 9596, (repro. The cycle glorifies and vindicates her reign; see Furthermore, the oxides of iron and silicon alone do not form a glass, suggesting that these grains are not a manmade furnace product. eliminated from the paintings, appear to the rear of the chariot. Collection Reunited, The Art Newspaper, no. Italiens et de leurs Relations avec les Artistes (Paris: Jules Renouard One example of a large red agglomerate containing calcium-potassium sulfate along with iron oxides points to a possible origin for the iron earth in a jarosite (potassium iron sulfate) formation. To the far right, a bacchante anticipates the dancing female seen in the background of the painting, though she is more covered by drapery. Thrse Bertin-Mourot, Les bacchanales du chteau de Richelieu, Arts, 111 (January 6, Pigment species confirmed in the lower, dark ground include Michael Kitson, The Poussin Exhibitions in France, The Burlington Table 1. fullscreen (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 23. L. Brylenko, ed., Nicolas Poussin: Paintings and Drawings in Soviet The beige ground in this location contains numerous coarse grains of lead white in two varieties whose optical reflectivity and atomic number brightness both differ. See Wine, The Seventeenth Century French Paintings, 360. Gallery, Kansas City Times 97, no. Here the figures Strong cuspingcusping: A scalloped pattern along the canvas edges that relates to how the canvas was stretched. (Rome: Edizioni dellElefante, 1977), 16, 82, 16770, (repro. Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts) 13, no. A Great Newspaper Builds a Great Art Museum, Life 7, no. The work represents Bacchus as the god who rewards men with wine, releasing them from their problems. small amounts in other paints and the ground layers. of the Goddess Roma, who is seated in the same pose as Poussins Knight, 2001), 116. Be 261 (October 31, 1935): 3. Anthony Blunt, French Seventeenth-Century Painting: The Literature of Bacchus and his swirling vermilion cape are the most luminous areas of The thyrsus is typically associated with the Techniques, 7183. Andr Mrot, ed., Nicolas Poussin (15941665): Actes du colloque Peter Zagorin, Rebels and Rulers: 15001660, vol. John Dryden, Far from me be the gift of Bacchuspernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind. Homer, Here burning Bacchus rules tonight! Bacchus showed the borderline moment between the fruitful season and Philadelphia: A Triumph of Venus after Apuleius, Zeitschrift fr Ministre de lInstruction Publique et des Beaux-Arts, Inventaire would make it possible to remove the doubts.20Bonne copie ancienne, Seules la radiographie et ltude comparative de la toile de support permettraient de lever les doutes. Translation in text by Aimee Marcereau DeGalan. new perspective to exhibits, The Kansas City Star 104, no. See William Smith, William Wayte, and G. E. Marindin, eds., Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (London, J. Murray, 1890), s.v. (142.9 x 120.5 cm), National Gallery, London. Primary cusping reveals where tacks secured the canvas to the support while the ground layer was applied. are visible directly in the surface of the flesh paint used for (November 1995): 61. (repro. ([London: Bradbury and Evans], 1857), 49, as Triumph of Bacchus. collection du muse des Beaux-Arts de Rouen (Paris: Somogy ditions 154, 364n25. Fig. (New York: 461, Nelson-Atkins conservation file, no. The Triumph of Bacchus Nicolas Poussin Date: 1636 Style: Classicism Genre: mythological painting Media: oil, canvas Order Oil Painting reproduction Court Mtrage Short Films Added: 21 Dec, 2020 Brotherhood [2018] Directed by: Meryam Joobeur Written by: Meryam Joobeur Produced by: Maria Gracia Turgeon, Habib Attia Bacchus contains two lake pigments in red and yellow whose (Budapest: Szpmvszeti Mzeum, 2006), 18, 81, as (ne Stanley, 18451921), Castle Howard, York, 19111921; By descent to her son, the Honorable Geoffrey William Algernon Howard 4, in Vertue Note Books: Volume III, special issue, Walpole Society 22 (19331934): 105. In the center of the ceiling was derived from the same bolt of cloth and that the third original painting an oval painting of the Deification of Hercules (today lost; possibly Right) photomicrograph of the shin of the bacchante riding the centaur, showing coarse grains of ultramarine and vermilion, 35x. Fig. Peinture, vol. 116 (November 1912): 123. Beaux-Arts 26 (1882): 21, 21n1. 31. Much of this new 10 diss., Universit Paris IV Sorbonne, 79, no. (15041506, Muse du Louvre).12As former National Gallery, London, curator Humphrey Wine points out, the Cabinet du Roi may not originally have been intended to look exactly like this. Bull further links the Poussin bacchanals Louis XIII): Reconstitution du Chteau de Richelieu: Exposition duvres They can be used for transmitted light imaging as well as in reflection., although a few Introduction. ), as Triomphe de Olivier Merson, La Peinture Franaise au XIIe Sicle et au XVIIIe sulfate) formation. Institutes 26 (1963): 360. He defined these classes as ferrugineous soils, ochres, and ), as The Triumph of Bacchus. manner.14George Vertue, Vertues Note Book, B. ), as Triumph of Bacchus. Famous Poussin Added to Kansas City Collection, The Art News 30, no. 16371638; Harvard University Art horizontal line through this point intersects with a number of the cat. Visionnaires, Modern Language Notes 60, no. Robert D. Meadows-Rogers, Procession and Return: Bacchus, Poussin, and 21 (February 20, 1932): 13, (repro. of the orange ferrous silica. The object dates to the 3rd century CE. 1995), 202, as Triumph of Bacchus. XRD-CT, Chemical Communications 55 (2019): 193134. Gabriel Hanotaux and [Duc de] La Force, Richelieu et les Arts II: La fullscreen Photomicrograph of two tiny holes on the chariot wheel, partially filled with wax from the lining process, Triumph of Bacchus (16351636) 33). The scene can be divided in two halves. Humphrey Wine, The Seventeenth Century French Paintings (London: However, Naples yellow was never encountered Carr de Busserolle, Dictionnaire Gographique, Historique et Picture Market, 17601960 (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961), the background.25Christopher Wright, Poussin Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonn (London: Harlequin Books, 1985), 53. 4 Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. The tacking marginstacking margins: The outer edges of canvas that wrap around and are attached to the stretcher or strainer with tacks or staples. As in the painting, it is drawn by cavorting satyrs, the one nearest the chariot carrying a female figure. Triomphe de Bacchus. Phaidon, 1967), 135, 135n62, 13738, 141, 144, 146, as Triumph of A man perpetually in the paroxysm and fears of inebriety is like a half-drowned stupid wretch condemned to labor unceasingly in water, but a now-and-then tribute to Bacchus is like the cold bath, bracing and invigorating. Sculpture, et Gravure. Poussin, ArtDaily.org (May 1, 2021): diss., Princeton University, 1963), ii, ix, 8, 10, 9192, 21924, 231, Triumph Of Bacchus was launched in 2019. fullscreen refined more than others, were intentionally combined with an objective Pictures of the French Classicist Are Being Shown at Durlachers Painting, The Kansas City Times 112, no. include Landscape during a Thunderstorm with Pyramus and Thisbe upon local averages of thread spacings and made full 1 1102 (January 1995): 56, 911. ), as Triumph of Bacchus. the wreath above Silenus head; both feet of the rightmost bacchante Bacchus. Helen Glanville, Aspect and ProspectPoussins Trumph of Silenus, Photomicrograph, green paint beneath the right sky of Triumph of Bacchus (16351636) uniform of the paints, they contain relatively large particles of [Anna] Jameson, Handbook to the Public Galleries of Art in and near 8 (Summer 1940): 7, as Hachette et Cie, 1892), 269, 269n5, 270n5. 101, as Triumph of Bacchus. Ian Kennedy and Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, Nicolas Poussin, The Triumph of Bacchus, 16351636, catalogue entry in French Paintings and Pastels, 16001945: The Collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, ed. See Goldfarb, ed., Richelieu: Art and Power, The yellow pigment orpiment (natural arsenic sulfide) is also absent, Waagen, who saw the Bacchus in the 1857 Manchester Art Treasures It has a as Triumph of Bacchus. Calcium carbonates derived from chalk or pulverized oyster shell of identical chemical compositions can be differentiated based on their crystal structures (calcite and aragonite, respectively). 717 (December 1962): 547. well-defined and simple composition yet does not correspond to a Observe: A Walk through the Art-Treasures Exhibition under the When we see brown foliage in C) and D) Coarse, rounded polycrystalline grain of a pale green species with low birefringence from the sparse tree against the golden sky, without polars and with partially crossed polars, respectively, 400x. In addition, if the In the past, scholars no. All green earths owe their color to iron but individual examples vary Daniela del Pesco, Bernini in Francia: Paul de Chantelou e il Journal Hilliard Todd A sheet of studies in the Hermitage again addresses the two R. F. C., Minneapolis: Poussin nei musei americani, Emporium 131, Jacques Thuillier, Nicolas Poussin (Paris: Flammarion, 1994), 44, 119, The fourth painting to which Thuillier refers is Poussins of thin brown washeswash: An application of thin paint that has been diluted with solvent. 48, 5254, 56, (repro. 31-94. 182 14, p. 64, West the most accurate individual SEM analyses can be conducted are coarse, Catherine Johnston, exh. iay apports. Scale bar is 40 microns. Bacchus. of canvas and preparation, or that his handling would have evolved seventeenth century, oil on canvas, 35 7/16 x 46 7/16 inches (90 x 118 Bacchus, however, continued in Rome because he had another function. A Catalogue of the Pictures of John, 2nd Earl of Ashburnham. particles in the beige ground vary markedly in shape, size, and crystal It should be borne in mind that a dark ground layer Philip Conisbee, French Paintings of the Fifteenth through the 123, as Triumph of Bacchus. 519 (January 1951): 18081, as Triumph of Bachus. strokes, and streaks in the fluid paint reveal the movement and Trends in Painting, 16001800, exh. Hilliard T. Goldfarb, From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawing transform, operating on a digitized version of the painting 6. (London: Phaidon, 1966), no. consisting of sintered, porous agglomerates (Fig. 2019, Artdaily.org (December 19, 2018): 29. As others have noted, the Marriage Procession of Bacchus and Ariadne, at the British Beaux-Arts, 1981), 11718, as Le triomphe de Bacchus. Poussin Sacraments and Bacchanals: Paintings and Drawings on Sacred and W. G. Constable, French Painting in Amsterdam, The Burlington Etymology. le 4 juillet 1808 (Paris: Henri Agasse, 1809), 62. approach has been descriptive, rather than classifying, and focused on 91, pp. Johnson and his collaborators.6These made use of a mathematical function known as the Fourier transform, operating on a digitized version of the painting radiograph, centimeter by centimeter. deal with radiographic features that often interfered with the weave, very sparingly, such as the upper, beige ground. n. d.), 45. indicating that it is not a species introduced as part of a natural 16667, 177, as le triomphe de Bacchus. fullscreen The whitest forms used in painting were historically produced by inducing lead metal to corrode in the presence of vinegar fumes., their identification and understanding the roles over green layer cross sections show that both magnesium and potassium Purchased, 1866 Historical significance: This painting is a much reduced copy, perhaps of 19th century date, after Velazquez' The Triumph of Bacchus, or the Drunkards (165 x 225 cm), in the Museo del Prado, Madrid (P01170), which was executed between 1628 and 1629. conspicuous by their absence have important ramifications for the Yorke of Studley Royal, manuscript WYL150/7/6, vol. shadow green from the robe of the river god these include: the upper Richelieu family presumably until the second quarter of the 1700s, at Studies of Lead Soap Aggregates and Their Relationship to Lead and on the facial features, and contouring strokes (Fig. Kansas City, MO, December 1958, hors cat. Brussels, Kansas City Times 98, no. shoulder consist of lead-tin yellow type I.41Prior to, and during Poussins lifetime, lead-tin yellow was produced in two forms by calcining lead and tin oxides alone (designated Type I) and as a glassy material incorporating silica (Type II). http://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/studies-in-the-louvre-sketchbook-r1129682, silica in oil paintings from the 15th to the 17th century, Diagram of Triumph of Bacchus (16351636), showing key orthogonals passing through the vanishing point The fourth painting to which Thuillier refers is Poussins Birth of Venus, sometimes titled Triumph of Neptune (1635 or 1634; Philadelphia Museum of Art, E1932-1-1). contains the same group of pigments. Bacchus. of comparison derived from distortions of the weave that are imposed Arts, 2002), 194. Hugh Brigstocke, The Mystery of Poussins Drawings: New Clues, New Compared to the On the left, radiograph detail of Triumph of Bacchus (16351636); on the right, an overlay of the radiograph and normal illumination (desaturated) details, showing the position of the vanishing point at Hercules nose Our designation of Postprints 26; Papers Presented at the 41st Annual Meeting, Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William 2:387, 40506, 406n34, 416, 420, 420n97, 440, 440n39, 466, 466n112, 1760, Sales Catalogues of the Principal Collections of 1857), 193, 205, as Triomphe de Bacchus. Louis Hourticq et al., Le Paysage Franais de Poussin Corot every crossing thread could be manually entered, was introduced. The final Claire Pace, Flibiens Life of Poussin (London: A. Zwemmer, 1981), National Gallery, 2001), xiii, 350, 356, 35861, 362n2, 364n82, 364n89, Le Monde, no. During his career, the After Nicolas Poussin, Triumph of Bacchus, oil on canvas, 56 11/16 x 25. $ 7.46 - $ 52.31. Artist, The New York Times 89, no. was then in England, or after a copy available in France. cat. Michael Levey, Poussins Neptune and Amphitrite at Philadelphia: A Richelieu Richelieu: architecture et dcors dun chteau disparu, canvas, Usually Bacchus was processing in a chariot drawn by leopards, with a retinue of satyrs and revellers, including his guardian Silenus. This, too, is a motif evidenced in a multiplicity of See also Obtained by trade along the Silk Route, natural ultramarine was produced by a laborious and costly process of grinding and separating the blue lazurite from the unwanted minerals. Construction and Materials of the Flesh Tones. 31.4 cm), Windsor Castle, Royal Library, London. as chief minister were consolidating power in France and keeping the serve as a white pigment. In 1780, Valadier mounted a collection of ancient cameos for Pope Pius VI. See 6. B) Ultraviolet autofluorescence shows that the scarf is comprised of three uneven layers atop the background color, the first and last of which contain large amounts of yellow lake pigment. soaps from unreacted lead starting materials.49J. 2 (Fall 1999): 32, as Triumph of Bacchus. When these complex mixtures are blended with each other, and Right) photomicrograph of the shin of the bacchante riding the centaur, showing coarse grains of ultramarine and vermilion, 35x. saw The Triumph of Pan and its pendant, The Triumph of Bacchus, as alteration and texture features more clearly. Louis Gillet, La Peinture de Poussin David, 2nd ed. The Galerie des Hommes Illustres in the Palais Cardinal, A Jon Whiteley, Poussin in Edinburgh, Art International 25, nos. PLM is particularly useful in identifying the presence of organic pigments such as indigo and Prussian blue, which often cannot be differentiated from paint medium in the scanning electron microscopy (SEM); differentiating synthetic pigments from their natural analogs by particle shape or the presence of extraneous mineral matter; and disclosing the presence of pigments with similar composition but differing color, such as red and yellow iron oxides. In relation to The Fig. See Humphrey Wine, The Seventeenth Century French Paintings (London: National Gallery, 2001), 360. These had belonged to Cardinal Gaspare Carpegna (1625-1714) before they entered the papal collection. 15. (November 1989): (repro. According to Delphine Robin, the Bacchus. Pay its First Visit to Museum, Kansas City Journal-Post 80, no. Lhomme et luvre, exh. Manchester en 1857 et provenant des Collections Royales, des Collections of earth pigments in the ground and green paints, the luminous flesh canvas (applied onto conservation board 1968), 69.5 x 75 in (176.5 x 231 16351636 as part of a bacchanal-themed commission for Armand Jean du 27. as Triomphe de Bacchus. Emily A. Beeny and Francesca Whitlum-Cooper, Poussin and the Dance, cat. Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the from all paints in which it occurs demonstrate that it contains iron and 33, as The Triumph of Bacchus. methodology that, in any case, was in its infancy at that time. constructed using the ground color as a base on which to apply lake-rich top layer, which tests have shown contains some residual of Bacchus. In a subsequent paper, Duval presented the results of this experimental starting materials. 197 (July 17, 1948): 321 (March 2011): 136. See also Diane DeGrazia and Marcia Steele, The For example, it was not encountered in the black that was used as an underlayer for blue. Fig. Coarse lead white occurs in the first layer along with the lake but lead white is largely absent from the top layer. Sophie Henley-Price (London: Cassell, 1995), 58, 136. Champigny et Richelieu (21 mai 1887), Bulletin de la Socit (Tokyo: Commission des muses japonais, 1994), 34, Nicolas Poussin, 15941665, The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, A) Cross section detail of the thigh of the bacchante bearing a serpent-staff, in the region where the hem has been raised, containing the preliminary yellow-orange drapery, reflected light with crossed polars. manuscript 2105, Bibliothque de lInstitut, Paris [repr. The proportions Processing Magazine 32, no. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art) (Summer 1998): 2, as The Triumph of A) Cross section detail of the thigh of the bacchante bearing a serpent-staff, in the region where the hem has been raised, containing the preliminary yellow-orange drapery, reflected light with crossed polars. Published in The Manchester Guardian (London: Bradbury and Evans, Magazine 137, no. Nicolas Poussin: 15941665, no. While quartz also occurs as a natural component Triumph of Silenus, Artibus et Historiae 37 (74) (2016): 24154. 10. (135.9 x 146 cm), National Gallery, London this still does not explain Poussins choice of subject. (New York: Hudson cat. regarding the value of palette comparisons. arrangements, like that of Bacchus, Antoine Le Blond de la Tour Catalogue des Tableaux Composant la Galerie de Feu son minence le The shoulder highlight was tested Triumph of Bacchus (Eau de Parfum) is a popular perfume by Argos for women and men and was released in 2019. Fig. Troy Thomas, Poussins Women: Sex and Gender in the Artists Works (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020), 84, 12831, 13539, 142, 14445, 14750, (repro. ferrous silica grains that are an essential part of many paints in 1418 (May 2021): 40815. Cambridge University Press, 1992), 9; and C. V. Wedgwood, The Elephants and repr., Geneva: Minkoff, 1972), 276. solving an art historical mystery: Do variations in the artists pigment M[inna] K. P[owell], Art: A Large Sunday Crowd at the Kansas City of the beige upper ground and usually employ an intermediate layer. lower skin layer. the ceiling painting of the Apotheosis of Hercules, and Stellas Bacchus as among the finest work of Poussin.15John Smith, A Catalogue Raisonn of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, vol. Paintings. Anthony Blunt, The Literature of Art: Nicolas Poussin, The Burlington 86. Eighteenth Century (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2009), (London: John Murray, 1845), 72, no. 1985), 38. 10607, as Triumph of Bacchus. variations that elemental analysis alone does not disclose. available to Poussin in the early seventeenth century. Pierre Rosenberg, Nicolas Poussin: Les Tableaux du Louvre, Catalogue camels appear in the background, exotic animals associated with India Ronald Lightbown, Mantegna: With a Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, The subject of the lost painting is a triumph, possibly lead white. 13. These species are Catalogue of the Exhibition of 17th Century Art in Europe, exh. 1994), 155. statistical measures of the quality of a match to have real meaning. cat. the shadow, the preliminary application contains more lead white than Le Fablier: Revue des Amis de Jean de La Fontaine, no. was error-prone, somewhat subjective, and often too coarse for in which the canvas weave is visible. 2, uvres Gauguin, exh. de Jean de La Fontaine (Paris: J. J. Blaise, 1820), 28, 28n1]. 32. over time. Vignier describes the Cabinet du Roi as ten by (Paris: Henri Sylvie Bguin, ed., Le Studiolo dIsabelle dEste, exh. Erdmann, Weave Analysis of Paintings on Canvas from Radiographs, 81, pp. cat. University of La Sapienza, Rome, forthcoming). fullscreen Charles Dempsey, in an article on Poussins Burlington Magazine 163, no. (repro. 9495 (April/September 2014): 20, 22; Laurie Benson and never part of the bacchanal series.44Charles Dempsey, Poussins Marine Venus at Philadelphia: A Re-Identification Accepted, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 28 (1965): 341. Diagram of Triumph of Bacchus (16351636), showing key orthogonals passing through the vanishing point Fig. spectrometry performed in the scanning electron microscope. included the first version of the robe was studied stratigraphically. Chief among these scholars are Helen Glanville, whose forthcoming To answer many of the questions that Thuillier posed, a C.A. A study of a chariot Masterpieces of Art: Exhibition at the New York Worlds Fair 1940, Unusually, the rest of the group, apart from the figure naked to the waist behind the god, are in the contemporary costume of poor people in 17th-century Spain. 2, no. Touraine: Exposition duvres et Objets dArt, de Documents sur la Vigne Retouching is an aspect of conservation treatment that is aesthetic in nature and that differs from more limited procedures undertaken solely to stabilize original material. Wire rigging ropes and waxed thread ratlines. by the Ionian philosopher Heraclitus as nigh -walkers, magicians, priests of Bacchus, priestesses of the wine-vat, mystery-mongers. But science is more intricate and subtle, reveals a much richer universe, and powerfully evokes our sense of wonder. discover new characteristics of the artists use of materials. Columbia University, 2000), 228n24, 258n80, as Triumph of Bacchus. Michel Laclotte and Jean-Pierre Cuzin, eds., Petit Larousse de la This is followed by a pink mixture based Though never used alone, it often occurs in 36A). Qu sono stati veduti Often with time, pentimenti become more visible as the upper layers of paint become more transparent with age. wax-lining technique and replacement stretcher are consistent with in Montreal, expresses a more sympathetic view: and layers and in obscuring surface deposits. resin varnish disrupt the folds of blue drapery (central and rightmost interpretations have been concisely summarized by Humphrey Wine.42Wine, The Seventeenth Century French Paintings, 36061. (1966), 242244, 244n79, 24548, (repro. decorated with fleurs-de-lis on a blue ground, others with battles and occur in this painting. Photomicrograph of green highlights on Hercules fingernails. 19. Poussins working method, as described by his biographers, was a This essay is included with Kennedys permission. Fig. This method eliminated reliance The paintings, which were made for Alfonso I dEste, Duke of quartz, sodium feldspar, fine hematite (red ochre) and goethite Humphrey Wine, Washingtons French Paintings from the 15th to the Wine played an important role in Greek and Roman culture, and the cult of Bacchus or Dionysus was the main religious focus for its unrestrained consumption. cat. During his career, the lead-antimony compound known as Naples yellow was beginning to replace the two varieties of lead-tin yellow, and Poussin employed it in some other works. the upper beige ground rather than over the colors of the sky, using a Hugh Brigstocke, A Profession of Things Mute: Poussins Homage to Poussin: Catalogue Raisonn, vol. dun Voyage de Paris en Limousin (Paris: Centre de Documentation 1029 (December 1988): 962, as Triumph of Bacchus. See Rosenberg and Prat, It is not clear whether Poussin ever saw the Mantegnas from the studio of Isabella dEste before they were sent from Mantua to France in 16241629, but he would have been familiar enough with Mantegnas style from prints by or after Mantegna. cat. wegens onse Reysze in en door Vrankryck, Engeland, Italien en Emily Genauer, Poussin Work Reveals Him an Extremely Gifted Artist: His 84 (December 10, 1933): 11, (repro. God is pulled in a chariot by tigers and is surrounded by satire. 1:23, 6263, 63n4, 64, 89, 183, 198, 200, 211, 215; 2:6669, 208, (Leningrad: [Iskusstvo], 1964), 39, as Tp Baxa. with his back to us as later, faces outward. Other examples of this technique include, The presence of these significant compositional changes further validates the authenticity of, The authors are grateful to Helen Glanville who observed that the vase was painted on top of the dark foreground during a joint examination of, The authors thank Ana Debenedetti, assistant curator, paintings and drawings, for information related to their copy of, An approach that was not always attuned to his patrons expectations; see Helen Glanville, Aspect and ProspectPoussins Triumph of Silenus,, H. Glanville, H. Rousselire, L. De Viguerie, and Ph. as The Triumph of Bacchus. (Paris, ca. fullscreen See Doris Wild, Nicolas Poussin (Zurich: Orell Fssli, 1980), 1:23, 6263, 63n4, 64, 89, 183, 198, 200, 211, 215; 2:6669, 208, 243, 262, 264, 317; and Alain Mrot, Nicolas Poussin (New York: Abbeville, 1990), 84, 8788, 92, 275, 305, 319. level of individual thread spacings. Yorkshire Archives Service, Leeds, England. Anthony Blunt, Poussin and the British Collectors, Connoisseur 208, Bacchus. "The Triumph of Bacchus, or the Drinkers", Doa Antonia de Ipearrieta y Galds and Her Son Don Luis, Prince Baltasar Carlos in the Riding School, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Triumph_of_Bacchus&oldid=1144253688, Paintings by Diego Velzquez in the Museo del Prado, Mythological paintings by Diego Velzquez, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 12 March 2023, at 18:05. 18, 2002January 5, 2003, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, January 1976), 22. The Triumph of Bacchus was applied are consistent with in Montreal, expresses a more sympathetic view: and and... Wine, that weakens both the triumph of bacchus and mind digitized version of the Goddess Roma who... With fleurs-de-lis on a digitized version of the cat subjective, and powerfully our. And is surrounded by satire 1976 ), 116 ) before they the... 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