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Bacchanalian Infants Playing with a Goat
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Eight followers of Bacchus, the god of wine, pull a recalcitrant billy goat to the sacrificial site. The animal must pay for having eaten the young grapevines. The relief is an original variant of a famous work by François du Quesnoy, the teacher of Quellinus in Rome.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineBacchanalian Infants Playing with a Goat. c. 1650 - c. 1665. Artus Quellinus (I). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
