# Anacreon with the Infants Bacchus and Cupid

- By: Jean Léon Gérôme (French, 1824–1904)
- Date: Modeled 1878, cast c. 1893
- Medium: Bronze
- Classification: Sculpture
- Dimensions: 72.4 × 43.8 cm (28 1/2 × 17 1/4 in.)
- Culture: France
- Credit line: Gift of Gustave Leblanc Barbedienne
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/729)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/05d4174890af36c7f8cbb172a7e16407.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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