A young, pale-skinned boy wearing a brilliant blue toga sits on a rock and holds a gold pitcher in a landscape in this vertical painting. The boy’s body faces us, and he leans onto his right hand, to our left, so his body and head tip in that direction. He wears a leafy crown over long blond curls. He looks slightly up with wide-set, light brown eyes. He has round, rosy cheeks, and his pink lips are parted. He holds the gold pitcher up in his left hand, to our right. One foot rests on a rock and the other stretches long, to our right. A thin tree grows diagonally up and to our right from…
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The Infant Bacchus

Giovanni Bellini (Venetian, c. 1430/1435 - 1516)

probably 1505/1510

Medium
oil on panel transferred to panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 50.05 × 39 cm (19 11/16 × 15 3/8 in.) ; framed: 66.68 × 55.56 × 9.53 cm (26 1/4 × 21 7/8 × 3 3/4 in.)
Culture
Venetian
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, 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

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