A Bacchanalian Scene
After Peter Paul Rubens Flemish
Etcher Pieter Soutman Dutch
Not on view
The drunken figure of Bacchus stands at right holding a jug, accompanied by a satyress and a black female dancer with a tambourine. Additional satyrs and satyresses are shown at center and left, nursing two children at lower left. The print reproduces a painting that hung in the Common Parlour at Houghton Hal, was bought by Catherine the Great. in 1779, and is now in the Pushkin Museum.