PIERRE, Jean-Baptiste-Marie
(b. 1714, Paris, d. 1789, Paris)

Bacchanal

1755
Red chalk, 223 x 178 mm
Private collection

In this bacchanal scene naked nymphs are decorating a herm (a squared stone pillar with a carved head on top, used in ancient Greece as a boundary marker or a signpost). The high level of finish in the drawing suggests it was intended as a complete work on its own, but Pierre might have made a print after it, as he did of several of his drawings.




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