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Silenus Holding the Child Dionysus, Louvre Museum, Paris
Charles Soulier (French, 1830–1900)
c. 1860s
- Medium
- albumen print from collodion negative
- Classification
- Photograph
- Dimensions
- Image: 39.5 x 18.4 cm (15 9/16 x 7 1/4 in.); Paper: 40.7 x 30.5 cm (16 x 12 in.); Mounted: 47.2 x 34.4 cm (18 9/16 x 13 9/16 in.)
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Photography
- Credit line
- Gift of George Stephanopoulos
- 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 Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This Roman marble sculpture from the collection of the Louvre shows Silenus holding the infant Dionysus. The museum acquired it in 1807 and it is still on view there today.
