DrawingsFrench18th century

Reclining Bacchante Holding a Vase

18th century

Artists

Unidentified ArtistArtist

Claude Michel, called ClodionPrevious attribution

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black and white chalk on light tan antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink

Culture

French

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

29.3 x 18.1 cm (11 9/16 x 7 1/8 in.)

Provenance

[Alphonse Kann] sold; to Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA (by 1927), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965

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