Young Bacchus Riding a Leopard Led By a Satyr Blowing a Horn

Prints and Drawings

1647

Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, 1607-1677)
after Petrus van Avont (Flemish, active 17th century)

Wenceslaus Hollar engraved book illustrations and several series of frieze-like bacchanal prints for his friend the Flemish painter Pieter van Avont, whose specialties also included devotional images of cherubs similar to ancient figures of the infant Eros. This sheet shows a wreathed infant Dionysos astride a leopard, an animal sacred to the god. The taller satyr blowing his horn at the front leads the procession onward in search of the next vineyard. Avont and Hollar may have been aware of Giuio Carpioni’s contemporaneous example of the children’s bacchanal (1942.348), with its more realistic, yet eerier figures.

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Wenceslaus Hollar
Title: Young Bacchus Riding a Leopard Led By a Satyr Blowing a Horn
Place: Bohemia (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1647
Medium: Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 14.3 × 21.2 cm (5 11/16 × 8 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Elizabeth Hammond Stickney Collection
Reference Number: 1887.443
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