Bacchus and Ariadne (after the Antique)
attributed to Sir Richard Westmacott RA (London 1775 - London 1856)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1770 - 1829
Materials
Plaster
Measurements
545 mm (Height)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Chastleton House, Oxfordshire (Accredited Museum)
NT 1430597
Summary
Plaster sculpture with integral square base and wooden plinth, Bacchus and Ariadne (after the Antique), attributed to Sir Richard Westmacott RA (London 1775 - London 1856), late 18th century to early 19th century. A piece-moulded plaster maquette of Bacchus and Ariadne.The figures are walking forward together, crowned with vines, his arm round her shoulder. Break through her left leg, ankle and plinth. After the marble once at Marbury Hall, Cheshire and now in Boston Museum of Fine Arts, called Dionysus or Priapos and a Maenad (Roman, Imperial Period, about 1st–2nd century AD) .
Makers and roles
attributed to Sir Richard Westmacott RA (London 1775 - London 1856), sculptor possibly Joseph Nollekens, RA (London 1737 – London 1823), sculptor
References
Busco 1994 Marie Busco Sir Richard Westmacott Sculptor. Cambridge Studies in the History of Art, Cambridge University Press, 1994, fig. 11 Haskell and Penny 1981: Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique, The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500 - 1900, New Haven and London, 1981, 26, p. 191