Bacchante with chalice and three infants

Joseph-Charles Marin

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

One of a pair with 1983.185.6. The bases, if not original, are certainly close to it; the base of 1983.185.5 either predates Louis XVI's death in 1793 or was added after the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1815. Marin exhibited comparable groups at the Salons of 1793 and 1795.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The fifty thousand objects in the Museum's comprehensive and historically important collection of European sculpture and decorative arts reflect the development of a number of art forms in Western European countries from the early fifteenth through the early twentieth century. The holdings include sculpture in many sizes and media, woodwork and furniture, ceramics and glass, metalwork and jewelry, horological and mathematical instruments, and tapestries and textiles. Ceramics made in Asia for export to European markets and sculpture and decorative arts produced in Latin America during this period are also included among these works.

Metropolitan Museum of Art