of line andfidelity to colour that are the characteristics ofRubens. Likewise the subject is of the orderbeloved by him, A Bacchanalian Feast. Thesame composition was reproduced by the painter,but on a larger scale. The Drunken Silenus, andhangs in the Petrograd Gallery. The story of this Rubens is… … A BACCHANALIAN FEAST—PAINTING UPON COPPER xcvni BY RUBENS In the Galleries fifty years later, Jacques Necker, Minister ofFinance under Louis XIV, received the pictureas a gift from a rich banker of Antwerp. Laterthe statesman in turn presented it to an oldfriend, a nobleman, a great admirer of…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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