Bacchus

Laurent Pécheux
Young Bacchus
1801
oil on panel
Galleria Sabauda, Turin

Guido Reni
Young Bacchus
ca. 1622
oil on canvas
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden

Hans Rottenhammer
Bacchus
1597
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Massimiliano Soldani
Bacchus
ca. 1690
drawing
Yale University Art Gallery

Roman Empire
Bacchus
2nd century AD
bronze statue (fragment)
Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Anonymous Ferrarese Artist
Bacchus
17th century
oil on canvas
Musée Fesch, Ajaccio, Corsica

Peter Paul Rubens
Bacchus offering Wine to Venus
(illustrating the proverb, Without Ceres and Bacchus Venus Freezes)
ca. 1612-13
oil on canvas
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

Anonymous French Artist
Bacchus
17th century
bronze
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Study of a Cast
(the so-called Bacchus Richelieu)
1793
drawing
Princeton University Art Museum

Johann Georg Platzer
Bacchus and Ceres
ca. 1730-40
oil on copper
Deutsche Barockgalerie, Augsburg

Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola)
Bacchus with Young Satyr
ca. 1535
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Charles-Joseph Natoire
Bacchus
ca. 1740
drawing
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota

Roman Empire
Bacchus with Satyr
AD 160-170
marble
Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Roman Empire
Bacchus with Satyr
2nd century AD
marble
Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden

Roman Empire
Bacchus with Follower
2nd century AD
marble
Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden

Roman Empire
Bacchus
2nd century AD
marble
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen

from Autobiography: New York

The white cat on the lawn,
lying in the sun against the hedge,
lovely to look at –
but this stout gentleman,
who needs a shave badly,
leaning in an arbor hung with purple grapes,
purple grapes all about him,
is unpleasant.
Am I becoming misanthropic?
An atheist?
Why, this might be the god Bacchus!

– Charles Reznikoff (Going To and Fro and Walking Up and Down, 1941)