Female bust of a Bacchante who is the idealized type of assi - Lot 110

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Female bust of a Bacchante who is the idealized type of assi - Lot 110
Female bust of a Bacchante who is the idealized type of assistant of the Dionysian feasts celebrated in honor of the God Bacchus, which in time would become the Roman orgies.with her crown of vine and youthful face she symbolizes the new generation and an idea of a renewed fertility coming from drunkenness and promises to come.marble.Roman period.First centuries after J.C.H :30cm. Reference :Similar to a bust from the old Beger collection.XVIIIès,whose engraving was published in the Picard "L'Antiquité expliquée"1721. Probably from a palatial villa of imperial type. Acquired from the Merchich Gallery, rue du Faubourg Saint Honoré in the 1980s.
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