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Anacreon with the Infants Bacchus and Cupid
Jean Léon Gérôme (French, 1824–1904)
Modeled 1878, cast c. 1893
- Medium
- Bronze
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- 72.4 × 43.8 cm (28 1/2 × 17 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift of Gustave Leblanc Barbedienne
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
In the early 19th century, industrial approaches to production created a new middle-class market for small-scale bronze statuettes, which were displayed in domestic interiors. This statuette is a reduced version of a larger-than-life composition depicting the ancient Greek poet Anacreon cradling Bacchus and Cupid. As the god of wine and pleasure, the infant Bacchus is wreathed in vine leaves and holds a bunch of grapes. Cupid, god of love, bears feathered wings and presses his cheek to the poet’s. French bronze foundry Barbedienne reproduced this popular work in five different sizes.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
