The drunken Silenus
Printmaker:
Hodges, Charles Howard
Publisher:
Boydell, John
Publisher:
Boydell, Josiah
Painter:
Rubens, Peter Paul
(After)
The balding and bearded Silenus, wound around with vines and falling forwards in drunkenness, plucking grapes from a bunch held by a cloven-hoofed Satyr, emerges from a grove of trees at the right with a group of Satyrs and Bacchantes who are drinking from goblets and making music with tambourines and flutes. Putti are with them, one of whom is urinating onto the ground whilst three others gorge themselves on grapes and other fruits. A tiger or lion approaching from the left has leapt up to grab the grape vine in its jaws.
Bequeathed by the Rev. R. E. Kerrich, 1872 (received 1873)
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1873) by Kerrich, Richard Edward
18th Century#
Production date:
1789-08-01
AD 1789
Mezzotint. Proof before title. Lettered with artists' names in italics in the margin at lower left: 'Rubens Pinxit.' and lower right: 'C.H. Hodges Sculpsit.' Publisher's details engraved at lower centre: 'Publish'd Aug.st 1st. 1789. by John & Josiah Boydell, Cheapside. & at the Shakespeare Gallery. Pall Mall. London'. Inscribed in graphite at lower right (curatorial hand): '59/60 / Kerrich'. Inscribed in the margins at lower right: 'N.7 [Nagler] / ?57' and in pen and ink in the margins at lower right: 'Silenus'.
Accession number: P.15014-R
Primary reference Number: 240077
Nagler (Künstler-Lexicon): 6.7 ('Der betruknene Silen, nach Rubens')
Voorhelm Schneevoogt: 135.142
Chaloner Smith: undescribed
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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