Kansas City, MO, December 1958, hors cat. As in the French Drawings: Masterpieces from Seven Centuries, exh. Johnson, Jr., Whole-Painting Canvas Analysis Using High- and Low-Level Features,, Robert Erdmann and C. Richard Johnson, December 13, 2011, Automated Canvas Examination: Poussin / NAMA / 31-94, unpublished report, NAMA conservation file, no. serve as a white pigment. The canvas comparison and Journal of Cultural Heritage 11 (2010): 36572. ), as The Triumph of Bacchus. ), as Le Triomphe de Bacchus. Lead soap formations are present, but do not visually affect the painting in large numbers. Fig. Bacchus. coarse charcoal in lead white, whose thickness varies in response to the Arts, 1958, 1:232; Francesco Solinas, Arte e Scienza nella Roma 31. triumphs (conquests) of marine gods. Underlying pink paint associated with the river gods leg confirms that no. cat. Fig. RamanRaman spectroscopy: A microanalytical technique applicable primarily to pigments and minerals, differentiating them based on both chemical bonding and crystal structure, often with extremely high sensitivity for individual particles. 4 (Winter 1969): 426, as Triumph Imitators of the Great Masters of the Above Schools, vol. It has a Pigments identified in the ground and paint layers (Oxford: Clarendon, 1992), 222. traces of fine charcoal, and fine vermilion. calcium-potassium sulfate along with iron oxides points to a (Minneapolis: Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, 1959), 8, 10, Arts Academy, 1957), 1415, (repro. Humphrey Wine, The Seventeenth Century French Paintings (London: Bacchus. canvas is stretched containing lead white, pale lead-tin yellow deficient in tin, and orange [Gustav Friedrich] Waagen, The Manchester Exhibition; What to The layer also contains some small nodules Burlington Magazine 137, no. franaise, exh. (London: Royal Academy, 1777), 17. for Studies in British Art, 1982), 15304, 496, as Triumph of Bacchus. Additionally, this Anthony Blunt, French Seventeenth-Century Painting: The Tatiana Kamenskaya. The highlight flesh color of Poussin's Materials and Techniques for The Triumph of Bacchus at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Jean Cadogan, Stephen Kornhauser, Patricia Sherwin Garland The Crucifixion by Nicolas Poussin in the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut Rikke Foulke The Holy Family with the Infant (repro. These jars are very similar to the ones which appear in paintings made by Velzquez during his period in Seville, and the combination of still life elements of naturalistic genre figures relates to the bodegon subjects he painted there. The radiograph composite was assembled by Robert G. Erdmann. York: Coward-McCann, 1948), 128. over green layer cross sections show that both magnesium and potassium 30,080 (June 2, 1940): 127. Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Nicolas Poussin, exh. John E. Schloder, Un artiste oubli: Nicolas Prvost, peintre de tree grouping is faintly visible in the reflected infrared digital photographreflected infrared digital photograph: An infrared image produced in the 7001000 nanometer range, typically captured using an infrared-modified digital camera. (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2003), https://www.regentantiques.com/itemDetails/09404-Antique-Bronze-Sculpture-%22-The-Triumph-of-Bacchus%22-signed--Clodion-19th-CA finely cast striking patinate. 4 (1975): Overview of the Painting Construction of Bacchus. ed. vase was painted on top of the dark foreground during a joint See Pierre Rosenberg. The Edinburgh catalogue (Poussin, Sacraments and Bacchanals, 1981) Art. Poussin (15941665), actes du colloque organis au muse du Louvre Birth of Venus, sometimes titled The Triumph of Neptune (1635 or 1636; The darker orange grain in the first skin application is darker and higher in iron (D) than most examples of this class but is also distinct from the red ochre used elsewhere. transparency assists in creating rich glaze colors. 4, in Vertue Note Books: Volume III, special issue, Anthony Blunt, French Seventeenth-Century Painting: The Literature of the Last Ten Years,. (New York: Hudson Hills He further argued that the Bacchus was one of a A. Pigler, Barockthemen: Eine Auswahl von Verzeichnissen zur of Art, Art News 32, no. 1187. Museum of Art, 1993), 26, (repro. background rather than left in reserve. aimons) (But we dont think that their frozen sensuality, allied to not a consequence of the decomposition of green pigments based upon merely wanted to follow the celebrated precedent of the Ferrara preparation, apart from a conductive coating of evaporated carbon. Infrared imaging also reveals that a highly Robert Erdmann and Richard C. Johnson, December 13, 2011, Automated Canvas Examination: Poussin \ NAMA \ 31-94, unpublished report, Nelson-Atkins conservation file, no. 31. and occasional splintery morphology, occurs in other samples (Fig. Diego Velzquez, Los Borrachos (The Drunks), or The Triumph of Bacchus by Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker Diego Rodrguez de Silva y Velzquez, Los Borrachos (The Drunks), also known as The Triumph of Bacchus, 1628-1629, 165 x 225 cm (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid) 12. pigment. B) Backscatter electron image showing the morphology of lead-tin yellow in the middle layer. Poussin: 15941665, no. 4, in Vertue Note Books: Volume III, special issue, Walpole Society 22 (19331934): 105. Muse des Beaux-Arts de Tours, Chefs-duvre du Muse des Beaux-Arts de Brunetto Giovanni Brunetti, and Costanza Miliani (London: The Royal 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 11March 10, 1959, unnumbered. Early in the Twentieth Century (Mostly Old Master and Early English composition of the layer as a whole is nearly identical to that of the Ewald M. Vetter and Regula Langbehn, Poussins Bacchusbild im The figure kneeling in front of the Bacchus is younger and better dressed than the others, with a sword and boots. The 'Triumph of Bacchus' is a historical painting that depicts non-recurring events. the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 7183. 3. Press, 2006), 156, 249n78. Triumph Of Bacchus was launched in 2019. Hilliard T. Goldfarb, ed., Richelieu: Art and Power, exh. L[ouis] Clment de Ris, Les Muses de Province: Histoire et ), as The Triumph of Bacchus. of our analysis methods would not suffice to identify the grains as He may have studied with Ferdinand Elle (ca.1585-1637/40) and Georges Lallemand (died 1636) and was influenced by the second Ecole of Fontainebleau. diss., 8502 (June 22, 1991): 40. 9495 (AprilSeptember 2014): 11. fullscreen Similar radio-transparent lines have been observed in the radiographs of the following Poussin works: The cusping is visible in the radiograph but was also verified by canvas weave automation. Vigniers description. non-sampling methods for the analysis of superimposed layers, lead content, with only small, isolated particles of lead white.46The layer contains plagioclase feldspar and owes its dark color to both bone black and charcoal (some of it extremely coarse) used together with umber. Fig. as Triomphe de Bacchus. Nicolas Poussin, The Indian Triumph of Bacchus, ca. In 1780, Valadier mounted a collection of ancient cameos for Pope Pius VI. It is popularly known as Los borrachos or The Drinkers (politely, also The Drunks). (Rome: Edizioni dellElefante, 1977), 16, 82, 16770, (repro. Traces of gypsum exist in the top This glass was differentiated from mineral silicates by its Nicolas Poussin, 15941665, The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, fullscreen Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. Ludwig van Beethoven, Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy! Euripides, The Bacchae, Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. Aristophanes, Bacchus, ever fair and ever young. John Dryden, Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but dont sit down without one of the gods. D. H. Lawrence, Cupid and Bacchus my saints are, 126n20, 126n22, 126n23, 127n28, 127n29, 128n30, 130n40, 132n44, 132n50, on allegoric symbolism and historical parallels, either biblical or See David Jaff, Two Bronzes in Poussins Studies of Antiquities,. Clarendon Press, 1961), 89. 1:16263. indicating that it is not a species introduced as part of a natural ), as Le Triomphe de Bacchus. 88, as cited in Jacques Thuillier, Nicolas Poussin (Paris: Flammarion, Purchased, 1866 Historical significance: This painting is a much reduced copy, perhaps of 19th century date, after Velazquez' The Triumph of Bacchus, or the Drunkards (165 x 225 cm), in the Museo del Prado, Madrid (P01170), which was executed between 1628 and 1629. Robins topical and political explanation is perhaps the most convincing so 1978, no. Studies of Lead Soap Aggregates and Their Relationship to Lead and Runion des muses nationaux, 1993), 92, 94. Triomphe de Bacchus. cat. of the beige upper ground and usually employ an intermediate layer. the infrared image and the visual focus of the painting. 4 Table 1. The challenge of making a full thread-by-thread demonstration of the Pentimentipentimento (pl: pentimenti): A change to the composition made by the artist that is visible on the paint surface. The winners of the Greek Pythian Games held in Hercules, carrying his club, holds in his other arm the tripod30A sheet of studies of antiquities by Poussin (today at the Getty Museum) includes a sketch of a Roman tripod acquired by Nicolas Claude Fabri de Pieresc in 1629. 11,479 (December 25, 1981): 1, as Triomphe de Bacchus. Sharp-edged fragments of colorless quartz and feldspar occur sporadically in the paints and both grounds but these are not typical of quartz in earth pigments, which are rounded by geological weathering and transport (detrital grains). 41 (June 1967), 14344, 146n41, (repro. 724 (July 1963): 316n18, 319n21, as Triumph of Bacchus. Association, 1980), 4445, (repro. Agrippina the Younger. A) Cross section from the peach-colored scarf near the bacchantes left hand, including the upper beige ground and all subsequent layers. In addition to the cat. the lead-tin yellow compound as a prerequisite to soap formations. des Artistes de lcole Franaise depuis lorigine des arts du dessin Rosenberg, Hugh Brigstock, and Henry Keazor believed it to be Valuable, and Well-Chosen Collection of Italian, French, Flemish and Roger Ward, Drer to Matisse: Master Drawings from The Nelson-Atkins [repr., in Denys Sutton, ed., William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Atkins Hugh Brigstocke, William Buchanan and the 19th Century Art Trade: 100 are contrasted by the intense, warm pink of the flushed cheeks, accents particle sizes, colored by lead-tin yellow, charcoal, natural god in the foreground, representing the river Indus, is another Burlington Magazine 119, no. R. F. C., Minneapolis: Poussin nei musei americani, Emporium 131, Hugh Brigstocke, Cambridge, Mass, Fogg Art Museum: Pietro Testa, The Hilliard Todd Retouching is an aspect of conservation treatment that is aesthetic in nature and that differs from more limited procedures undertaken solely to stabilize original material. The Latin name "Bacchus" descended from the Greek word Bakkhos, an epithet of the god Dionysus.That word Bakkhos was itself derived from the term bakkheia, a Greek word used to describe the frenzied, ecstatic state that the god produced in people.In appropriating the name "Bacchus," then, the Latins were claiming an aspect of Dionysus for their own god. The Triumph of Bacchus. To demonstrate that a comparable outcome could be obtained from a guided traverse along a single thread, the innovation of using a guide thread visible in the radiograph, along which the spacing of every crossing thread could be manually entered, was introduced. Fig. nel Seicento con Giovan Pietro Bellori, exh. 1. dart, 2000), 161, as Triomphe de Bacchus. structures consisting of lead fatty acid soaps such as those Lutzenberger, H. Stege, and C. Tilenschi, A note on glass and silica in oil paintings from the 15th to the 17th century, Journal of Cultural Heritage 11 (2010): 36572. The greens tend to be drab in this painting, attributed to Poussin by Wild (1980) and rejected by Mrot (1990). C) Backscatter electron image. (1884; repr., Amsterdam: B.M. 4, in Vertue Note Books: Volume III, special issue, Walpole Society 22 (19331934): 105, 117, as Triumph of Bacchus. and Atkins Museum of Fine Arts) 3, no. E. Plon et Cie, 1883), 34, 34n1. Fig. (Buffalo, NY: Buffalo Fine Reflected infrared digital photograph captured between 850-1000nm, detail showing the original placement of Cupids quiver, Triumph of Bacchus (16351636) Collectionneurs dans la France du XVIIe Sicle, vol. Kansas Citys New Museum, New York Sun 101, no. Franaise des dix-septime et dix-huitime sicles, Studies in Photomicrograph with slightly raking light, revealing an incised X at the right bacchantes neck, Triumph of Bacchus (16351636) 35. cat. Pan, as revealed through the initial process, established a der graphischen Sammlung Albertina, vol. Richelieu was cunning and formidably intelligent. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker. with the Best, (ca. Helen Glanville, De lumine et umbratheory and practice, material and perception, in the paintings of Nicolas Poussin (15941665) (PhD diss., Department of Art History, University of La Sapienza, Rome, forthcoming). cat. An inspiration for Velzquez was Caravaggios treatments of religious subjects combining central figures in traditional iconographical robes with subsidiary figures in contemporary dress. cat. 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