Public domain
Bacchante
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
As far as is known, this is the last sculpture Adriaen de Vries made. It radiates the virtuoso and idiosyncratic style for which he is so justly famous. The pose of the figure is very dynamic and the body is loosely modelled, lending the bronze a certain sketchiness and spontaneity. In this De Vries was far ahead of his time; sculptors would only adopt this exceptional manner of modelling a few centuries later.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineBacchant. 1626. Adriaen de Vries. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
