Lot 407
407
A TERRACOTTA RELIEF OF THE TRIUMPH OF THE INFANT BACCHUS
PROPERTY OF THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART (LOT 407)
A TERRACOTTA RELIEF OF THE TRIUMPH OF THE INFANT BACCHUS

1779

Details
A TERRACOTTA RELIEF OF THE TRIUMPH OF THE INFANT BACCHUS
1779
In a Louis XVI style giltwood and green-painted frame, inscribed 1779
12½ in. (32 cm.) high, 13¼ in. (34 cm.) wide, including frame
Provenance
Jacques Doucet; Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 6 June 1912, lot 104.
Purchased by Julius Böhler, Munich.
Literature
F. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, Greenwich, 1973, pp. 412-413, no. 54.

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Lot Essay

This relief is remarkably fresh and impressionistic for the period and still retains its charm and sense of spontaneity after more than two centuries. As Watson notes, it is very close to a Huquier engraving after Boucher of a Fête de Bacchus, but then this was a popular subject for the period and there are many variations on this theme. The relief still retains its gilded and green-painted Louis XVI style frame that it had when it was part of the celebrated Doucet collection in the early 20th century.

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