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Source Description
In the early 1880s, John La Farge worked with a team of artists, including the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907), to produce decorations for the home of the American industrialist Cornelius Vanderbilt. La Farge's designs made many allusions to the art of the Italian Renaissance and to the splendid decorations created for the Medici banking family in Florence. In this drawing he used a medium common in Italian drawings—red chalk—in self-conscious emulation of Renaissance practice.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
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131784
label
Bacchus and Ariadne
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obj
dtoType
drawing
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1
Source metadata
id
131784
contentType
drawing
title
Bacchus and Ariadne
description
In the early 1880s, John La Farge worked with a team of artists, including the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907), to produce decorations for the home of the American industrialist Cornelius Vanderbilt. La Farge's designs made many allusions to the art of the Italian Renaissance and to the splendid decorations created for the Medici banking family in Florence. In this drawing he used a medium common in Italian drawings—red chalk—in self-conscious emulation of Renaissance practice.
date
c. 1880
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q80023368
creators
4047
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Drawing
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1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
Image: 41 x 36.8 cm (16 1/8 x 14 1/2 in.); Sheet: 52.9 x 42.6 cm (20 13/16 x 16 3/4 in.)
cul
America
accession
1954.36
Source extras
tec
red chalk (rubbed in places)
tombstone
Bacchus and Ariadne, c. 1880. John La Farge (American, 1835–1910). Red chalk (rubbed in places); image: 41 x 36.8 cm (16 1/8 x 14 1/2 in.); sheet: 52.9 x 42.6 cm (20 13/16 x 16 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1954.360
supportMaterials
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cream(1) wove paper
collection
DR - American 19th Century
creditline
Dudley P. Allen Fund
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2026-05-29 06:47:30.010000
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131784
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Drawings
coll
DR - American 19th Century
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red chalk (rubbed in places)
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male
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1
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0
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photo
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