# Bacchant

- By: Adriaen de Vries (The Hague, ca. –ca.)
- Date: 1626
- Medium: bronze (metal)
- Classification: figure
- Dimensions: height 108 cm x width 47.5 cm x depth 58.5 cm
- Credit line: Purchased with the generous support of the Vereniging Rembrandt (and the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds), the Stichting Nationaal Fonds Kunstbezit, the BankGiro Lottery, the Rijksmuseum Fonds, the VSBfonds, the Mondriaan Fonds, the Frits en…
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/BK-2015-2-1--c0952dad38f44c38f2c5833032050156)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/cjqqu/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

In so far as is known, this is the last sculpture Adriaen de Vries made. It radiates the virtuoso and idiosyncratic style for which he is so justly famous. The pose of the figure is very dynamic and the body is loosely modelled, lending the bronze a certain sketchiness and spontaneity. In this De Vries was far ahead of his time; sculptors would only adopt this exceptional manner of modelling a few centuries later.