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Deux Bacchantes s'enlaçant
Translated as: Two Bacchantes embracing
(Two Bacchantes embracing)
Sculptor:
Rodin, Auguste
Founder:
Perzinka, Léon
Bronze, cast
History note: Carfax & Co. London, March, 1899;
Bequeathed by G.J.F. Knowles, 1959, received 1966
Height: 15.5 cm
Width: 14.5 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1959) by Knowles, Guy John Fenton
Late 19th-early 20th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1899
Conceived before 1887 when Rodin added the group to the reliefs in the lower part of The Gates of Hell.
Casting (process) : Bronze, cast
Accession number: M.2-1966
Primary reference Number: 13655
External ID: CAM_CCF_M_2_1966
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022) "Deux Bacchantes s'enlaçant" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/13655 Accessed: 2022-11-26 19:04:51
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Accession Number: 2601
Accession Number: P.5886-R
Accession Number: PD.100-1961
Accession Number: C.12-1982
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