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A Bacchanal, Silenus supported by two bacchants in the centre, at left a female satyr reclining on a bed and another holding onto the horns on a statue of Priapus while she tries to impale herself on his phallus, various other figures fill the composition

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

A Bacchanal, Silenus supported by two bacchants in the centre, at left a female satyr reclining on a bed and another holding onto the horns on a statue of Priapus while she tries to impale herself on his phallus, various other figures fill the composition

Marcantonio Raimondi

Date
ca. 1510–13
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 11/16 × 19 15/16 in. (14.5 × 50.7 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
17.37.158
Credit line
Gift of Henry Walters, 1917
Original Met record Artist authority

Artist information

Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?)

Subjects and terms

  • Women
  • Horns
  • Bacchantes
  • Satyrs
  • Beds

The Met object ID 345721. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.