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Bacchus

Jost Amman · 1578 · houtsnede; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

Bacchus as a naked boy with grapevines and bunches of grapes on his head, in his hand a drinking bowl, sitting on a wine cask with a foot resting on a wine jug. Part of the model book *Enchiridion artis pingendi, fingendi & sculpendi* with 108 figures intended for beginning painters, sculptors and printmakers.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description

Subjects

print children's bacchanal the drunken Bacchus

Credit lineBacchus. 1578. Jost Amman. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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