[Untitled Bacchanal with an inebriated pipe smoker].

[UNKNOWN ARTIST].

Beschreibung

Original nineteenth-century drawing. 17.8 x 24.2 cm., pen & brush in black ink, collector's mark of painter Ary Scheffer on lower left and top left corners respectively, indistinctly signed under the former, conservation mounted in a card window. N.p. [French school ?], .n.d., 1800s. £500.00 Roughly trimmed edges, loss of tip of bottom right corner, old creases (none of which affecting image), image bright. Fritz Lugts: Les marques de collections de dessins & d'estampes , L.2264a for Scheffer's. He was a respected Romantic painter of Dutch origins, active in mid nineteenth-century France. Provenance: Ary Scheffer, the trade? to The LSD Library. Depicts a smiling, bearded ?Bacchus' like figure (though clothed) with a ?ruddy' nose in a state of inebriety. He imbibes of smoke from a very long pipe and holds a large stemmed wine cup in his other hand. He is surrounded by nudity and erotic revelry, a naked women leans into his left ear. An eagle stands on the ground to his right making the same pose as the French Imperial Eagle. The artist has signed just below this in a frustratingly almost legible cursive with a paraph. The Search For Soma, Julio Mario Santo Domingo and his LSD Library. 48. 218682. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 218682

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