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Period: 16th century (4567)

Type: ink (2963) | watercolour (2151)

Style: Flemish (418)

Subjects: Ariadne (Greek mythology) (8) | Bacchus (Greek deity) (27)

Keywords
gods (356) | lying (132) | mythology (1369) | nudes (1735) | princesses (26) | sleeping (104)

Bacchus and Ariadne

16th century

Floris, Frans, the elder    more

Pen and ink (brown), watercolour (brown) on paper (light blue)

height: 15 cm; width: 28 cm

Inscription
Inscription, (recto) signed, pen and ink, upper left:
F Floris
Inscription, (verso) signed, pen and ink (brown), verso, with initials:
FF

Acquisition
Witt, Robert Clermont (Sir); bequest; 1952
D.1952.RW.3912

Copyright: © The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London