Antique Print Made after the Painting 'The March of Silenus' by Rubens '1785'

€ 1 200

One of a kind: this is the sheet in the photographs. Ships from Langweer, the Netherlands.

Date: 1785
Sheet size: 46 × 50 cm (18.1 × 19.7 in)
Condition: Fair
Reference: BG-12341

Condition

Repaired: Strengthened with paper tape on verso. Shows some wear and creasing. Blank verso. Occ. sl. torn in outer blank margins (strengthened with paper tape on verso). Please study images carefully.

About this sheet

Antique print titled 'Baccha Nalians'. Rare large-sized mezzotint made after the painting 'The March of Silenus' by Peter Paul Rubens. A drunken Silenus slouching at left and letting his jug spill, supported by a fauness and a black woman holding a tambourine, a goat-headed faun following; two fauns looking on from a tree to right, a tiger pawing at one from beneath; at foreground r, two faunesses sitting on the ground, one suckling two infants with the faces of elderly men; coat of arms at bottom. Published by John Boydell, 1785. Engraved by Richard Earlom.