Head of a Bacchante
Flemish School
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1670 - 1729
Materials
Marble in wooden frame
Measurements
355 x 305 mm
Place of origin
Flanders
Order this imageCollection
Vyne Estate, Hampshire
NT 719616
Summary
Marble relief sculpture in wooden frame, Head of a Bacchante, Flemish School, late 17th - early 18th century. One of a pair (NT/VYN/SC/73,74) of oval marble Flemish sculptures of heads - with grapes on head - one male and one female (satyr and bacchante).
Provenance
Purchased by Wiggett for £9;bequeathed with The Vyne, estate and contents by Sir Charles Chute, 1st Bt (1879-1956)
Makers and roles
Flemish School, sculptor