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Followers of Bacchus – the Roman god of wine and fertility – feast, drink and make love in the countryside. The painting resembles the great bacchanal scenes that were commissioned from the leading painters of Venice by Alfonso I d‘Este, Duke of Ferrara, for the Camerino d’Alabastro (Alabaster Room) in his palace, in particular Bellini’s Feast of the Gods (National Gallery of Art, Washington) and Titian’s Bacchanal of the Andrians (Prado, Madrid). However, the absence of the pigment ultramarine blue, which features consistently in the paintings for the Camerino, makes it highly unlikely that this painting could have hung among them, as has sometimes been suggested. The blue pigment in the sky here is azurite. It is not known who painted this picture.
Title
A Bacchanal
Date
probably about 1515–20
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 140.9 x W 168.2 cm;
H 140.9 x W 168.2 cm
Accession number
NG5279
Acquisition method
Bequeathed by Sir Lionel Faudel-Phillips, 1941
Work type
Painting
