About This Artwork

John Deare
English, 1759–1786

Bacchus Feeding a Panther, 1792

Marble
33.3 x 52.7 x 14 cm (13 1/2 x 20 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.)
Signed and dated: I. DEARE FACIEBAT ROMAE 1792
Michael A. Bradshaw and Kenneth S. Harris Endowment, 2001.48

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, A Case for Wine, July11—September 20, 2009, no exhibition catalogue.

Publication History

Mr. Richardson, A Catalogue of Framed and Glazed Prints and Drawings from the Herculaneum of the Late Edward Poore, Esq., Deceased... (19-20 April 1805), no. 76.

Wilfred Whitten, ed., Nollekens and his Times (London, 1920), p. 252.

William T. Whitley, Artists and their Friends in England, 1700-1799 (London, 1928), p. 86.

John Ingamells, A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy, 1701-1800 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997), p. 288.

Sotheby’s, European Works of Art (23 September 1998), no. 155 (withdrawn).

Peggy Fogelman, Peter Fusco, and Simon Stock, "John Deare (1759–1798): A British Neoclassical Sculptor in Rome," Sculpture Journal 4 (2000), pp. 98–99, 115, no. 23, figs. 26, 27.

Ian Wardropper, "Collecting European Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago," Apollo 154, 475 (September 2001), pp. 8–9, no. 11, fig. 10.

Ownership History

Commissioned by Edward Poore, England, 1792, and completed in 1794 [according to Whitten 1920 and Fogelman, et al 2000]; sold, Edward Poore estate sale, Mr. Richardson’s, London, 20 April 1805, lot 76, to a private collector. Sold, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 29 November 1975, lot 133, to Shepherd Gallery, New York; sold to Luke Burnap, New York, 8 July 1976 [according to notes from telephone conversation with Robert Kashey of Shepherd Gallery, 3 March 2003, in curatorial file]; sold to a private collector through Shepherd Gallery, New York, 1982 [according to source cited above]; bought in, Sotheby's, New York, 23 September 1998, lot 155; sold, Sotheby’s, New York, 22 May 2001, lot 69, to the Art Institute, 2001.