Title(s)

Bacchant

Object type

• figure

Object number

BK-2015-2-1

Inscriptions / marks

• signature and date: ‘ADRIANVS FRIES 1626’

Artist

• sculptor: Adriaen de Vries (signed by artist)
• brazier: Hans Hilliger

Place

Praag

Dating

1626

Material

• bronze (metal)

Technique

casting

Measurements

height 108 cm × width 47.5 cm × depth 58.5 cm

What

• male bacchant(es)

Credit line

• Purchased with the generous support of the Vereniging Rembrandt (and the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds), the Stichting Nationaal Fonds Kunstbezit, the BankGiro Lottery, the Rijksmuseum Fonds, the VSBfonds, the Mondriaan Fonds, the Frits en Phine Verhaaff Fonds, the Stichting Beau Lieu et Beaux Arts, the Marjon Ornstein Fonds, the Elles Nansink Fonds, the Familie Verbeek Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds, Henri en Winnie Wientjes, the Rijksmuseum International Circle and private donations

Acquisition

purchase 6-Mar-2015

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• Bacchant (BK-2015-2)

Related

• Globe
• Schloss Sankt Martin im Innkreis

• 1600-1700, Gregor J.M. Weber, Reinier J. Baarsen, Dirk Jan Biemond, Jonathan Bikker, cat.nr. 17
• 1600-1700, Gregor J.M. Weber, Reinier J. Baarsen, Dirk Jan Biemond, Jonathan Bikker, cat.nr. 17
• De bacchant en andere late werken van Adriaen de Vries, Frits Scholten
• The bacchant and other late works by Adriaen de Vries, Frits Scholten
• Het wonder van Adriaen de Vries : van ons allemaal sinds 2014, Fusien Bijl de Vroe, Frits Scholten, Bieke van der Mark
• Recent acquisitions : paintings and sculptures, Ludo van Halem, Jenny Reynaerts, Frits Scholten, p. 294-297
• Libellus amicorum : Beket Bukovinská, p. 248-269
• Frits Scholten, ‘Just movement: on the significance and reception of Adriaen de Vries’s painterly manner’, Simiolus 40 (2018), p. 150-166.
• Peter Hecht, ‘Dutch museum acquisitions (2010-2014), supported by the Vereniging Rembrandt’, The Burlington Magazine CLVII, nr. 1343 (feb. 2015), p. 141-142, nr. II.
• cat. Christie’s New York, Adriaen de Vries’s Bacchic Figure supporting the globe, New York (Thursday 11 December 2014) (separately printed and extended version of the entry in catalogue Christie’s New York, The exceptional sale, 11 December 2014, nr. 10).
• Cat. Christie’s London, The exceptional sale, Londen, 7 juli 2011, nr 20.
• Michael Wening, Historico-topographica descriptio Bavariae. Das ist: Beschreibung, deß Churfürsten- und Hertzogthums Ober- und Nidern-Bayrn, deel II, München 1721, p. 21.