Bacchus and Ariadne (after the antique)
attributed to Sir Richard Westmacott II, RA (London 1775 - London 1856)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Plaster
Measurements
545 mm (Height)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Chastleton House, Oxfordshire
NT 1430597
Summary
Plaster, Bacchus and Ariadne, attributed to Sir Richard Westmacott RA (London 1775 - London 1856), undated. A piece-moulded plaster copy by Richard Westmacott of a Roman marble sculpture depicting Dionysus and a maenad carved in around the 1st or 2nd century AD and heavily restored in the eighteenth century and renamed 'Bacchus and Ariadne'; the marble formerly in the Smith Barry Collection, at Marbury Hall, Cheshire and now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (acc.no. 68.770).
Makers and roles
attributed to Sir Richard Westmacott II, 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