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Drawing, Bacchus and Ceres
This is a Drawing. It was created by Felice Giani. It is dated 1800–1825 and we acquired it in 1901. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over graphite support: cream-colored wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
Bacchus, god of viticulture, is here represented with Ceres, goddess of agriculture. While Bacchus is surrounded with grapes and a wine flagon, Ceres sits between a sheaf of wheat and cornucopia of fruits. The symbolism of grapes/wine and wheat/bread continues in the use of the same imagery in religious design, the two plants symbolizing the meal at the Last Supper.
It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors.
Its dimensions are
21.3 x 19.5 cm (8 3/8 x 7 11/16 in.) 8 7/16 x 7 11/16 in.
It is inscribed
In pen and brown ink, lower margin: Bacco Cerere [?]; in upper margin, in graphite: Bacco C[e?]rere
Cite this object as
Drawing, Bacchus and Ceres; Felice Giani (Italian, 1758–1823); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over graphite support: cream-colored wove paper; 21.3 x 19.5 cm (8 3/8 x 7 11/16 in.) 8 7/16 x 7 11/16 in.; Museum purchase through gift of various donors; 1901-39-3212
