Silenus holding the infant Bacchus: view from the front left. Etching by F. Perrier.

1630-1639

1 print : etching ; image 24.1 x 14.8 cm

FPB Bears number: 6

F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the antique. The lure of classical sculpture 1500-1900, New Haven and London 1981, no. 77 pp. 306-307 (on the statue)

Wellcome Collection 27319i

After a sculpture formerly in the Borghese collection, Rome, which was acquired by Napoleon and sent to Paris ca. 1808-1811; subsequently in the Musée du Louvre