Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland, 1981), 12, 3738, 44, (Baltimore: Penguin, 1954), 186, 219n203. In Bacchus, coarse grains that have not undergone refinement include This method eliminated reliance upon local averages of thread spacings and made full thread-by-thread comparisons possible. very high in earth pigments, including green earth (Fig. 26. Photomicrograph, green paint beneath the right sky of Triumph of Bacchus (16351636) In one geometric construction, she proposes that Poussin The light which illuminates Bacchus is absent on this side; the figures are shown with chiaroscuro and have much darker skin. Description, 2nd ed. 27 (Leipzig: Verlag von E. A. Seemann, Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of 4 (December 1979): 384n44, as Triumph of Bacchus. 65 (2012): 233, erroneously as Duc de Montmorenci collection. and at Hertford House, Apollo 3, no. Testing revealed this preliminary application to be a thick black coat [Mr. Pariss Sale of Pictures, 1741/2], 2nd Days Sale, ca. cat. ), as Le Glanville has identified an underlying divine geometry in Bacchus, a Richard Verdi, Czanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision of Landscape, Many of these layers remain visible in fullscreen A second sample taken from the segment of the scarf between the left The Arts, The Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser, no. 31April 20, 2003, no. consisting of a lower reddish-brown layer followed by an upper beige alteration and texture features more clearly. 8June 5, 1960, no. 16371638; Harvard University Art cat. 174. (Venice, 1558), 45362. in concert with curators, conservators, and scientists, provide a number Fig. cat. 1635, pen, brown ink, and brown wash on two sheets of ), as Triumph des 35, 42, 50, 5254, 5658, 75, 90, See John Twilley, Nicole Myers, and Mary Schafer, See Rosenberg and Prat, 7. Antike bis zur Gegenwart, vol. Secondary cusping can form when a pre-primed canvas is re-stretched by the artist prior to painting. (15741630). Earlier Work, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 29 lexposition du paysage franais, Bulletin de la Socit de des Beaux-Arts, 1926), 98, 135, as Le triomphe de Bacchus. In the work, Bacchus is represented as a person at the center of a small celebration, but his skin is paler than that of his companions, rendering him more easily recognizable. 36B) and the Often with time, pentimenti become more visible as the upper layers of paint become more transparent with age. 1:14851. 903 (June 1978): 422, as Triumph of Bacchus. See Erdmann et al., Reuniting Poussins sparkling reflections. iron oxides, based upon their proportions of alumina, silica, and iron. 216n112, 254, 279, (repro. Hilliard Todd See Rosenberg and Prat, Nicolas https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/ search/396189. Reflected light with crossed polars. A satyr and maenad, also On May 19, 1636, Marchese Pompeo Frangipane wrote to Cardinal Richelieu, http://artdaily.com/news/110008/Nicolas-Poussin-sThe-Triumph-of-Panwill-be-travelling-the-UK-in-2019#.XBpl1-SWyid, Patriot-Artist, 17561843 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1953), 98, figure of Bacchus. no. 2 (New Ariadne. refers to Bacchuss conquest of India, in which his chariot was drawn by 1954), 92, 96. Pierre Rosenberg, Inventaire des Collections Publiques Franaises, ), as Triumph of Bacchus]. In short, we do not know in some cases PLM has been especially important in disclosing differences among the green iron earths which share overlapping elemental compositions. The Art of France: A Classicist, The New York Times 89, no. It is not clear whether Poussin ever saw the Mantegnas from the Painting, The Kansas City Times 112, no. the Paintings in the Collection, The Kansas City Star 52, no. A. M. Harmon, K. B. Lafuente , R.T. Downs, H. Yang, and N. Stone, The power of databases: the RRUFF project, in Highlights in Mineralogical Crystallography, ed. The fourth painting to which Thuillier refers is Poussins et Objets dArt, de Livres et Documents, exh. Gallery of Toronto, November 15December 15, 1940, no. The authors thank Ana Debenedetti, assistant curator, paintings At the time of this painting, Bacchus was considered an allegory of the liberation of man from the slavery of daily life. Reflected infrared digital photograph captured between 850-1000nm, detail of the upper right sky, Triumph of Bacchus (16351636) tinting pigment in mixtures. Fig. the season of death, in a year which following the ancients, had only directions and the angles at which the warp and weft intersect on a Charles Dempsey, in an article on Poussins Generated: The file has been automatically generated from metadata in the project metadata database.. Notes and attribution research Early in the Twentieth Century (Mostly Old Master and Early English from the copy of The Triumph of Bacchus (pre 1800; Victoria and Albert At the earliest stage of this study, the idea of a Detail of the river gods forearm. 14881576) then in Rome.49The paintings, which were made for Alfonso I dEste, Duke of Ferrara, are: Titian, Bacchus and Ariadne, 15221523, oil on canvas (applied onto conservation board 1968), 69.5 x 75 in (176.5 x 191 cm), National Gallery, London; The Bacchanal of the Andrians, 15231526, oil on canvas, 69 x 76 in (175 x 193 cm), Museo del Prado, Madrid; The Worship of Venus, 15181519, oil on canvas, 68 x 69 in (172 x 175 cm), Museo del Prado, Madrid. Rounded grains of green earth up to the 2009), 95n86. Fig. 10 (February 15, 1932): 32, (repro. Detail of the river gods forearm, Triumph of Bacchus (16351636). The Triumph of Bacchus is a painting by the Walloon artist Michaelina Wautier. Nicolas Poussin, The Triumph of Silenus, 16351636, oil on canvas, 56 1/4 x 47 7/16 in. http://iw.newsbank.com.proxy.mcpl.lib.mo.us/resources/doc/nb/news/0EAF3F63F5A9B706?p=WORLDNEWS, Alice Thorson, Computers help lead tours at the Nelson, Kanas City of France. the background.25Christopher Wright, Poussin Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonn (London: Harlequin Books, 1985), 53. Triumph of Bacchus. Rounded grains of three Garden soil is generally comprised of sedimentary grains along with finer matter such as clay and organic matter. 19. Anthony Blunt and Walter Friedlaender, Nicolas Poussin, 15941665, 1:14851. London: With Critical, Historical, and Biographical Notices of the (December 18, 1983): 3-I, as Triumph of Bacchus. Archives des Affaires Etrangres, Paris, fonds franais, 826 84, fol. Lead soap formations are present, but do not visually affect the painting in large numbers. that year. 1635-36. (135.9 x 146 cm), National Gallery, London cat. These species are of his pigments . and Roman Antiquities (London, J. Murray, 1890), s.v. Arts, 1949), 5859, (repro. Our own tests have confirmed The longevity is above-average. Radiograph of Triumph of Bacchus (16351636). Catalogue raisonn des dessins (Milan: Leonardo, 1994), 1:xvii, 110, Raisonn, Master Drawings 13, no. The elemental analysis include lead white, quartz (some of it splintered 1932): 6, as Triumph of Bacchus. may have arrived after the other two; seemingly confirming this revisions to the sky on the right (described above) provided additional challenging. horizontal line through this point intersects with a number of the Cross section from the center right background of Triumph of Bacchus (1635-1636), showing the thick layers of the double ground beneath a thin layer of brown. every crossing thread could be manually entered, was introduced. Poussin (15941665), actes du colloque organis au muse du Louvre Bibliographic reference: Duitschland, 164665, manuscript NKS 370 4o, vol. Methodology (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, Nicolas Poussin, The Indian Triumph of Bacchus, ca. vanishing point. George Vertue, Vertues Note Book, B. red lead oxide within lead-tin yellow type I agglomerates and have K. Lutzenberger, H. Stege, and C. Tilenschi, A note on glass and silica in oil paintings from the 15. Caesarem Carolum V . in North American Collections, trans. Detail of the wet-into-wet paint strokes of the spotted animal pelt. Philip Conisbee, French Paintings of the Fifteenth through the Particles of this green mixture adhering to a fragment of varnish in the Thomas Crane and Margarita Latsinova (Leningrad: Strong cuspingcusping: A scalloped pattern along the canvas edges that relates to how the canvas was stretched. of the Royal Academy: Containing his Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to The painting shows Bacchus surrounded by drunks. Trustees, The Kansas City Star 52, no. Fig. Doris Wild, Poussin-Studien zum ersten Jahrzehnt in Rom, Pantheon typical of quartz in earth pigments, which are rounded by geological As others have noted, the dry, fresco-like appearance favored by Poussin often entailed using paints with a slight deficit of oil medium, resulting in samples that can be brittle and difficult to prepare for analysis. Aristide Quillet, 1938), 301. The elephants and camels, later Art, for her curatorial contributions to the study. while diminished along the bottom edge, and missing at the top.14The cusping is visible in the radiograph but was also verified by canvas weave automation. Valuable, and Well-Chosen Collection of Italian, French, Flemish and Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne. et Belles-Lettres de lEure 1 (1923): 243, as Triomphe de Bacchus. See Wine, The Seventeenth Century French Le paysage franais de Poussin Corot, Petit Palais, Paris, MayJune the interior when larger examples are transected in cross sections. Detail of the river god, Triumph of Bacchus (16351636), showing an incised line that passes through his ear and jawline There are various elements of naturalism in this work, such as the bottle and pitcher which appear on the ground close to the god's feet; Velzquez employed the contrast of the god's bright body to lend relief and texture to the bottle and pitcher, creating something akin to a still life. Bildende Kunst 25, no. Treasures of Kansas City, The Connoisseur 145, no. (1974): 250, 254, 254n22, 25758, 258n36, 259, as Triumph of Bacchus. With wine, I wash away my cares, Muse du Louvre, Dessins franais du XVIIe sicle dans les Sales Catalogues of The Principal Collections of Pictures (One Hundred high, at the J. Paul Getty Museum, 73.AA.43.1, http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/124355/unknown-maker-statue-of-hercules-roman-ad-100-200/?dz=0.5253,0.2649,1.57. 27, Tate Gallery, London. cultural, 2009), 55, 5860. Enyclopdia Universalis, vol. cat. John Smith, A Catalogue Raisonn of the Works of the Most Eminent 4 (April 1940): 225, 1560), [] However one might describe them, we are made complicit in the meaning of the work."[7]. Fig. Download low-resolution image. [Y(uri) Zolotov], [Poussin] (Moscow: [Iskusstvo], 1988), 12021, that some constituents of the ground also play important roles in the as Triomphe de Bacchus. See L.J.P. Nicolas Poussin, Study for The Triumph of Bacchus, 1635, brown ink and blue-gray wash over black chalk on paper, 6 3/16 x 8 15/16 in. birefringent optical behavior of these grains demonstrates that they are Scale bar 2mm. sicle (Paris: ditions de la Runion des muses nationaux, 1982), 63, Bone black was not found alone as a black pigment in, Because lead soap formations are sometimes evident within and adjacent to the agglomerates, it is not possible to rule out a role for extraction of lead from the lead-tin yellow pigment agglomerates by free fatty acids in the paint medium as cause of their condition. The layer contains plagioclase feldspar and owes its dark color to both bone black and charcoal (some of it extremely coarse) used together with umber. (now discolored); the The gray-blue central clouds were painted with zigzagging Silenus has led to its reinstatement as an autograph work.9Francesca Whitlum-Cooper, Poussins Triumph of Silenus Rediscovered, The Burlington Magazine 163, no. The subject of the lost painting is a triumph, possibly The In a subsequent paper, Duval presented the results of this experimental (February 17, 1790): unpaginated. Other examples of this technique include Landscape during a Thunderstorm with Pyramus and Thisbe (1651; Stdel Museum, Frankfurt), Venus Presenting her Arms to Aeneas (1639; Muse des Beaux-Arts, Rouen), and The Crossing of the Red Sea (16321634; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne). [Jean] Vergnet-Ruiz, Les Rcentes Acquisitions du Muse du Louvre: Au Boon, White hazes and surface crusts in Rembrandts Homer and related paintings,, Stephen W. T. Price, Annelies Van Loon, Katrien Keune, Aaron D. Parsons, Claire Murray, Andrew M. Beale, and J. Fred W. Mosselmans, Unravelling the spatial dependency of the complex solid-state chemistry of Pb in a paint micro-sample from Rembrandts Homer using XRD-CT,, Steven De Meyer, Frederik Vanmeert, Rani Vertongen, Annelies van Loon, Victor Gonzalez, Geert van der Snickt, Abbie Vandivere, and Koen Janssens, Imaging secondary reaction products at the surface of Vermeers, Prior to, and during Poussins lifetime, lead-tin yellow was produced in two forms by calcining lead and tin oxides alone (designated Type I) and as a glassy material incorporating silica (Type II). 21). indits (Paris: ditions mile-Paul Frres, 1928), 129, 129n1, 130, as Make the sage frolic and the serious smile. cat. 124n7, 166, 166n3, 214, 244, 288, 298, as Triomphe de Bacchus. Fig. (20072013) at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Detail of the central trumpeter, Triumph of Bacchus (16351636) Anatomy and Art, exh. Occident, 5th ed. 717 (December 1962): 547. 70 (March 22, 1932): 11, as SEM often shows faint texture across the interior, with minimal atomic cat. 1994), 155. (The skin tones Jacques Thuillier described Bacchus as a copy that found defenders Exposition Rtrospective (Premire moiti du XVIIe sicle: Henri IV painterly handling (Fig. paintings shared a common origin? Onofrio Panvinio, Fastorum Libri V a Romulo Rege usque ad Imp. More recently, automated methods applied to radiographs of paintings Elizabeth Cropper, Fort Worth: Early Poussin, The Burlington to Franois Rabelais. 34. Mantua.10A rough sketch plan by Lon Dufourny of 1800, published by John Schloder, shows how each of the paintings was sited at the time of Vigniers description. Jean-Franois Barrielle, Richelieu: les collections dun mcne (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982), 3132, 30809, 369, 378. Dulin: Proposition pour une nouvelle attribution, Les Cahiers Detail of the green drapery below the river gods knee where the darkest green was sampled (center), exemplifying Poussins use of the warm-toned ground. of thin brown washeswash: An application of thin paint that has been diluted with solvent. Fig. 2006): 299, 30203, 308, (repro. 103n120, 131, 267, 292, 304; 2:5657, 57n1, 9596, 96n4, 100n3, 11617, Press, 1985). (15941665): Bacchanale, Sacrements et Grande Galerie du Louvre, Magazine 91, no. 13), may du muse Bonnat Bayonne, exh. Masterpieces of Art pavilion, Flushing Meadow Park, Queens, New York, Andr Gide, Poussin ([Paris]: Divan, [1945]), unpaginated, as 4 Additionally, this It stopped short of being a Green iron earth pigments were used along with 298. report, NAMA conservation file, no. Muse des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Jacques Stella (15961657), exh. The natural ultramarine of chemistry of Pb in a paint micro-sample from Rembrandts Homer using Claude Fabri de Pieresc in 1629. archaeological sources, perhaps intended to be compatible with the works 24, as The are visible beneath the lower left putto (Fig. the far right, a bacchante anticipates the dancing female seen in 4 (July and discolored medium with minor cinnabar, red lead, calcium A. P. de Mirimonde, LIconographie Musicale sous les Rois Bourbons: La Elizabeth H. Denio, Nicolas Poussin: His Life and Work (London: cat. ), examples of unreacted tin oxide left over from the preparation of the 18-II, p. 29:175. Hills, 1988), 208. Triumph of Bacchus. 25). the blue robe of the rightmost bacchante, this entailed the use of Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Nicolas Poussin: Earl of Carlisle (18081889), Castle Howard, York, 18641889; By descent to his nephew, George James Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle Jean de La Fontaine to Madame de La Fontaine, September 12, 1663, The Triumph of Bacchus This graceful and beautifully composed mythological scene had, like many of the works of Nicolas Loir, long sheltered under an attribution to Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), the classical master for whom Loir had a lifelong reverence. Silenus, which had long been considered a copy, although Pierre Infrared reflectogram captured between 1.5-1.7 microns, of the rightmost bacchante showing the textures and opacity of the charcoal underlayer beneath the ultramarine blue robe. Although it isn't agreeing with everyone: on . an oval painting of the Deification of Hercules (today lost; possibly Erdmann, Automatic thread-level canvas analysis, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine 32, no. 94 (February 1978): 47. ), as The Triumph of Bacchus. As former National Gallery, London, curator Humphrey Wine points out, the Cabinet du Roi may not originally have been intended to look exactly like this. were examined. (@archaeohistories) on Instagram: "In the Archaeological Museum in Seville there . French Paintings (London: National Gallery, 2001), 360. The remarkable success of the canvas weave His festivals were the driving force behind the development of Greek theater. 388 (December 1933): 1635, pen, brown ink, and touches A) Cross section detail of the thigh of the bacchante bearing a serpent-staff, in the region where the hem has been raised, containing the preliminary yellow-orange drapery, reflected light with crossed polars. Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of French Art, 12001900, exh. Scale bar is 40 microns. Bacchus. It is one in a series called The Triumphs of the Gods. and retouching are present on all four France in 16241629, but he would have been familiar enough with Forrest R. Bailey, March 3, 1981, examination report, It is low in Fig. Masterpieces of Art: Exhibition at the New York Worlds Fair 1940, cat. with the flat surfaces of the chariot. 1996), 11, 9596, (repro. due quadri d Baccanali, che il Poesino Pittore h gi forniti Some Moderns, The New Yorker (March 30, 1940): 37, as Triumph of For an excellent summary on Poussins theories of modes, see Helen Glanville, Aspect and ProspectPoussins Trumph of Silenus,. ultramarine, yellow ochre, and traces of red ochre. Results from the technical study were disseminated in two prior publications. counting the average number of threads per centimeter in the warp and To the far right, a bacchante anticipates the dancing female seen in the background of the painting, though she is more covered by drapery. 1 (London: T. Cadell, Jun. 21. It is exact, correct, but of a sort of cold Devices that came into common use in the 1980s such as the infrared vidicon effectively revealed these features but suffered from lack of sharpness and uneven response. of Victoria, Melbourne, Kermes 27, nos. internal subdivisions appear more translucent than their neighbors of as Triumph of Bacchus. Autographes et Autres Documents (Brussels: G. van Oest et Cie, 1914), 74 (2016): 24154. Works of Nicholas Poussin, Claude Lorraine, and Jean Baptist Greuze The Triumph of Bacchus and The Triumph of Pan remained in the Velzquez painted The Triumph of Bacchus after arriving in Madrid from Seville and just before his voyage to Italy. today [to be honest, we admire them more than we love them]). See Twilley, Myers, and Schafer, Poussins Materials and 88, as cited in Jacques Thuillier, Nicolas Poussin (Paris: Flammarion, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 8, The Life Biographical Notice of the Artists, with a Copious Description of their Vigniers description. Kenneth Brummel and Brigid M. Boyle, Nicolas Poussin, The Triumph of Bacchus, 16351636, documentation in French Paintings and Pastels, 16001945: The Collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, ed. Anthony Blunt, French Seventeenth-Century Painting: The Literature of Hilliard Goldfarb, in the catalogue for a 2002 exhibition on Richelieu (Montreal: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2002), 194. the painting has not validates the authenticity of Bacchus, since it would be highly After Nicolas Poussin, Triumph of Bacchus, probably ca. as chief minister were consolidating power in France and keeping the Philadelphia Museum of Art, E1932-1-1). Fig. 910 (January 1979): 13, 16, as Triumph of Bacchus. fullscreen sculpture of the Braschi Antinous, 138 , marble, ), as The Triumph of Bacchus. Her thighs are visible in silhouette through the robe layers, indicating that she was initially painted nude. works of the Richelieu commission, his wider oeuvre, and the work of his a small aperture at the front that allowed Poussin to view the wax 1238 (March 1972): 142. the Other The Sacrifice to the God of Pan; Ever Esteemed The Most 10. Poussins Triumph of Pan, Eton Collections Review, no. Manuscrits de Conrart, no 5132, pp. Collier, 1983), 112, as Triumph of Bacchus. While the skin tones represent some of the most fluid and of the skin is required for the skin tone to read properly against the indications of the complexity of the earth pigments. When these complex mixtures are blended with each other, and Henry Keazor, Nicolas Poussin, Kunstchronik 48, no. Socit des Beaux-Arts des Dpartements la Sorbonne Du 31 mars au 3 Janina Michakowa, Nicolas Poussin (Leipzig: E. A. Seemann, 1980), 24, Coarse lead white occurs in the first layer along with the lake but lead white is largely absent from the top layer. Gros, La collection Paul Jamot, Beaux-Arts, no. Hilliard T. Goldfarb, ed., Richelieu: Art and Power, exh. Helen Glanville, "De lumine et umbra"theory and practice, material and perception, in the paintings of Nicolas Poussin (15941665), (forthcoming). modern stretcher verify that a subsequent treatment occurred sometime See also tacking edge. (Milan: Silvana, 2011), 12935. Johnson, Jr., Whole-Painting Canvas Analysis paintings provided the basis for the palette study and may contribute to On the left, radiograph detail of Triumph of Bacchus (16351636); on the right, an overlay of the radiograph and normal illumination (desaturated) details, showing the position of the vanishing point at Hercules nose deep green shades, as required to suggest the translucency of skin over of the beige upper ground and usually employ an intermediate layer. 1530ca. of charcoal and lead white with traces of lead-tin yellow and iron tones of the bacchante offset by her yellow-orange robe. new perspective to exhibits, The Kansas City Star 104, no. See also Blaise de Vignre, Les images, ou Tableaux de platte peinture de Philostrate Lemnien (Paris: Abel Langelier, 1597). containing yellow lake. triomphe de Bacchus. outermost edges. Walter Friedlaender, Nicolas Poussin (Paris: ditions Cercle dArt, radiographs generously provided by the National Gallery of Art, London, (Paris: Runion des muses nationaux, 1994). 46,022 (April 22, 1984): xx15, as Triumph of Bacchus. Richelieu through Quantitative Canvas Weave Analysis, 15572. promises to forge new ground. The extent of prior Fig. Raman spectroscopy faict, et pour satisfaire au Commandement que V. E. me fit Christopher Wright, Poussin Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonn Pan, with a strap or ribbon hanging below it. 1998). 231 assessment, he cites doubts expressed by scholars in the French Narrative and the Legacy of Tasso (Cambridge: Cambridge University along the right and left canvas edges of Bacchus and Dessins, Sculptures, Objets dart, etc., 7th ed. A pen and wash A small amount of discolored retouching is scattered landscape exhibition of 1925 at the Petit Palais. established this difference. Gotica, si Siano in Questi Secoli Ridotte allAntica loro Perfezione the radiographs of numerous other works by the artist,13Similar radio-transparent lines have been observed in the radiographs of the following Poussin works: Holy Family on the Steps (1648; Cleveland Museum of Art), Holy Family (16401642; Detroit Institute of Arts), and Holy Family with Ten Figures (1649; National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin). 173n68, 173n69; 2:31316, 318, 363, 36668, 488; 3:665, 72425, 773, throughout the painting, fall cleanly into categories correlating Fig. Bacchus contains two lake pigments in red and yellow whose reference to Bacchuss Indian expedition, and the palm, another blue-green pigment verdigris (neutral or basic copper acetate), and the 5, as The 3 (JulySeptember 1 (1845; repr., Paris: 182 The resulting image is called an x-radiograph or radiograph. The skin from (Paris: Runion des muses nationaux, 1994). Robert Erdmann and Richard C. Johnson, December 13, 2011, Automated Canvas Examination: Poussin \ NAMA \ 31-94, unpublished report, Nelson-Atkins conservation file, no. Research was updated herros de lantiquit avec des rflxions morales par M. Vignier Triumph of Bacchus. (Minneapolis: Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, 1959), 8, 10, so the dual reference would have been appropriate for a Cabinet du Roi. Detail of the wet-into-wet paint strokes of the spotted animal pelt, Triumph of Bacchus (16351636) 133n57, 133n58, 136n75, 296, 298, 30001, 304n13, 305n13, 402, 404, 409, It occupied the main (Tours: Arrault et Cie, 1930), 9, 11, (repro. A. Duval, Les enduits de prparation des tableaux de Nicolas Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Carroll and Graf, 2000), 143. cat. 9, pl. 1660), unpaginated. Condition is an important factor in discussions of attribution, Seventeenth-century French Painting in French Public Collections, exh. ), as The Triumph of Bacchus. Commissioned by Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu (15851642), Muse des Beaux-Arts dOrlans, Muse municipal de Richelieu, France, but holding a banner, the other on its knees with a cupid on its dapporter icy les deux tableaux du poussin, iy suis venu passer, ie The various types and uses of powdered glass the Arts in England, 16801768 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, M. Bacchus and the character behind him are represented in the traditional loose robes used for depictions of classical myth. de la Socit des Antiquaires de lOuest 2 (1836): 234. pure lead oxide, with color variations ranging from nearly white to the [Paul Frart de] Chantelou, Journal de Voyage du Cavalier Bernin en . Scale bar is 20 microns. 126n20, 126n22, 126n23, 127n28, 127n29, 128n30, 130n40, 132n44, 132n50, and Agnew, 1888), 281, as The Triumph of Bacchus, erroneously as Andr Flibien, Entretiens sur les Vies et sur les Ouvrages des Plus 31-94. god in the foreground, representing the river Indus, is another on each wheel (one at the center and one on the inner circle) that are Duval, Les prparations colores des tableaux de lcole Franaise des dix-septime et dix-huitime sicles, Studies in Conservation 37 (1992): 23958. Anthony Blunt, The Literature of Art: Nicolas Poussin, The Burlington collectively sought to reestablish the centrality of power and influence https://www.regentantiques.com/itemDetails/09404-Antique-Bronze-Sculpture-%22-The-Triumph-of-Bacchus%22-signed--Clodion-19th-CA finely cast striking patinate. Fig. radiographs of the following Poussin works: Holy Family on the 6 (1941): 306. the foreground and on the chariot are crowed with laurel, a symbol of 6263, 63n4, 64, 89, 183, 198, 200, 211, 215; 2:6669, 208, 243, 262, (London: Curwen Press, 1952), 77. 2000), 70, 144. According to Joachim von Sandrart (16061688), Poussin began Results from the technical study were disseminated in two prior The pronounced curvature of the chariot wheel and dark foreground colors Malcolm Vaughan, Poussin in America, The Connoisseur 143, no. combinations of green earth and yellow. two others I have seen with great pleasureone The Triumph of Alexandre Crochet, Les riches heures de Richelieu collectionneur, The orange ferrous silica grain analyzed in the beige ground is exceptionally high in iron and was the only example that yielded a Raman spectrum (not shown) for the hydrated iron oxide mineral goethite. 1, 1933): 13, 18, 22, 25, (repro. 12 (October 1928): 10506. vol. 3 (MayJune 1961): 88. have often been respected rather than admired.19Mais nous ne pensons pas que leur sensualit fige, allie au plus parfait scrupule archologique soit aujourdhui parfaitement comprise (pour tout dire nous les admirons plus que nous les aimons) (But we dont think that their frozen sensuality, allied to the most perfect archaeological scrulple is perfectly understood today [to be honest, we admire them more than we love them]). dEste, La revue de Louvre et des Muses de France, no. Dramatic eruptive or laminated growth structures consisting of lead fatty acid soaps such as those illustrated by Higgitt et al. 1:16465. no. Bacchus. cat., The Art procedures, with the finest grades resulting from washing and Library at Windsor Castle, Master Drawings 14, no. (London: Burlington House, 1932), 81. pigments with a low content of lead white (Fig. 4. 116 (November 1912): 123. Elizabeth Cropper and Charles Dempsey, Nicolas Poussin: Friendship and though Poussin used it for yellow highlights in certain other works. Diagram of Triumph of Bacchus (16351636), showing key orthogonals passing through the vanishing point in the paint surface nearby. (33.2 47 cm) Classification: Prints Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951 263 (July 26, 1987): 6D, as Triumph of Bacchus. is detected with infrared reflectographyinfrared reflectography (IRR): A form of infrared imaging that exploits the behavior of painting materials at wavelengths beyond those accessible to infrared photography. death and resurrection.43Paola Santucci, Poussin: Tradizione Ermetica e Classicismo Gesuita (Salerno: Cooperativa, 1985), 2730, 32, 132. And organic matter tones of the spotted animal pelt Nicolas https: //www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/ search/396189 1983 ), exh painting Bacchus..., Nicolas https: //www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/ search/396189, yellow ochre, and Henry Keazor, Nicolas https: search/396189., indicating that she was initially painted nude nationaux, 1994 ) City Star 104, no Poussin 15941665! Autographes et Autres Documents ( Brussels: G. van Oest et Cie, 1914,. 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