Jusepe de Ribera
Spanish, 1591-1652
Silenus at the Wine Vat
INV-1093
Jusepe de Ribera
Spanish, 1591-16521628
Silenus at the Wine Vat
Jusepe de Ribera Spanish, 1591-1652 →etchingprint
Date
1628
Medium
Etching in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 27.5 × 35.2 cm (10 7/8 × 13 7/8 in.); Sheet: 28.2 × 35.6 cm (11 1/8 × 14 1/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Anonymous gift
The Spanish Baroque artist Ribera may have known several of the other bacchanal prints on view nearby, including those by Andrea Mantegna (1956.1010 and .1011); this earthy depiction of Dionysos’s fleshy, frequently inebriated follower closely resembles the scene within the grape-arbored roundel of Annibale Carracci’s Tazza Farnese (1989.172). Pan, with his pipes set aside, crowns Silenos with a wreath of grapevines, tendrils of which also cover his pubic area. Children have passed out from the wine fumes, and Apollo looks on derisively as a donkey seemingly lifts its head in mirth at the proceedings.
Also notable
Works in the same vein
St. Jerome Hearing the Trumpet of the Last Judgment
Jusepe de Ribera Spanish, 1591-1652
A Group of Figures
Jusepe de Ribera Spanish, 1591-1652
Untitled (Caricature)
possibly by Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673) possibly by Jusepe de Ribera (Spanish, 1591-1652)
The Penitent St. Peter
Jusepe de Ribera Spanish, active in Italy, 1591-1652