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Cupid Drinking from Bacchus's Cup, C519r

Helle Nanny Brendstrup

Thorvaldsens Museum

Bertel Thorvaldsen
1770-1844

Cupid Drinking from Bacchus's Cup

Type of Work / Object
Drawing

Location
- Not on display
Inventory Number
C519r

Catalogue Number
C519r
Catalogue Level / Collection
Thorvaldsen's Art > Thorvaldsen's Drawings (C)

Motif / Theme

Object > Container > Bowl
Human > God > Dionysos / Bacchus
Human > God > Erotes > Eros / Cupid
General Subject > Greek and Roman mythology

Additional Catalogue Information

- Material
  - Paper
  - Color > Chalk > White chalk
  - Color > Chalk > Carbonpencil
- Technique
  Drawn

Dimension

Height 254 mm
Width 188 mm

Art Form / Craft
Draftsmanship / Drawing

Culture / Period European > Modernity (1800 - 1914)
Art Movement / Style
- Neoclassicism

Owner
- Thorvaldsens Museum
- Acquisition Mode
  Bequest from Bertel Thorvaldsen
- Acquisition Date
  March 24, 1844

Permalink
https://kataloget.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/en/C519r

Exhibition History

Classical Myth in the Art of Bertel Thorvaldsen. Drawings and Sculptures from the Collections of the Thorvaldsen's Museum, Copenhagen, and the Hermitage, State Hermitage Museum, July 14, 2021 - October 3, 2021