The Infant Bacchus holding a Wine-flask and Grapes with an Infant Satyr drinking from a Shell
Jan Pieter van Baurscheit the Elder (Bonn 1669 - Antwerp 1728)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1701 - 1703 (signed and dated)
Materials
Marble
Measurements
1626 x 279 x 146 mm (64 x 11 x 5 3/4 in)
Order this imageCollection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 1271345
Summary
Marble sculpture, The Infant Bacchus holding a Wine-flask and Grapes with an Infant Satyr drinking from a Shell by Jan Pieter van Baurscheit the Elder (Wormersdorf, Duchy of Jülich, nr. Bonn 1669 - Antwerp 1728), inscribed on back of barrel: J.P.V./ BAURSCHEIT/ PERFECIT/ Ao 1703 [? or 1]. A white marble group of the youthful Baccus, seated on a barrel holding a bunch of grapes with an infant satyr at his side.
Provenance
Transferred to the National Trust with Shugborough’s park and contents of the state rooms, in part-payment of death-duties to the Treasury, following the death of Thomas, 4th Earl of Lichfield (1883 - 1960)
Credit line
Shugborough, The Anson Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Reverse: inscribed on back of barrel: J.P.V./ BAURSCHEIT/ PERFECIT/ Ao 1703 [? or 1]
Makers and roles
Jan Pieter van Baurscheit the Elder (Bonn 1669 - Antwerp 1728) , sculptor