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Bacchanal of Satyrs and Cupids
Also titled Bacchanaal van saters en amors
Gerard van Opstal (Antwerp, 1605–1668)
c. 1635 - c. 1642
- Medium
- ivory
- Classification
- sculpture
- Dimensions
- height 11.8 cm x width 31.5 cm x thickness 2 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions nudity. How works are placed
About this work
The Brussels sculptor Gerard van Opstal created a stir at the French court in Paris with his small-scale ivory reliefs in the Flemish Baroque style of Rubens. Here, this finds expression in the chubby bodies of the putti and the plump proportions of the pair of satyrs.
