# The Birth of Bacchus

- By: British School (British, active 18th century)
- Date: c. 1790
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: 37.7 × 80.5 cm (15 × 31 3/4 in.); Framed: 47 × 91.5 × 6.4 cm (18 1/2 × 36 × 2 1/2 in.)
- Culture: United Kingdom
- Credit line: Gift of Mrs. James Ward Thorne
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/87637)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/de1fc61c80d548c690d8f734f619348a.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)