The present work is after the celebrated work by Johann Heinrich von Dannecker (d.1841) in the State Sculpture Gallery, Frankfurt. Ariadne, daughter of the King Minos of Crete, having helped Theseus, whom she loved, to escape from the Labrynth, was in turn abandoned by him on the island of Naxos. Bacchus rescued her, consoled her and soon they were married. The vine wreaths in Ariadne's hair allude to her union with Bacchus, the God of Wine, as does the panther which is often depicted drawing Bacchus's triumphal chariot. Ariadne's Heavenward gaze may also relate to the constellation created when Bacchus flung her jewelled crown to the Heavens.