Description
Drunkenness of Bacchus shows the heavily built god supported by a leaner companion at the left. Heads and figures gather at the right, with goats and vines linking the company to its mythological setting. The central body’s weight gives the gray print a strong focus, while the surrounding figures keep the subject from becoming an isolated portrait of the god of wine.
Made between 1630 and 1657, the print is by Jonas Suyderhoef after Peter Paul Rubens, with Pieter Soutman credited as publisher. This impression belongs to the first of four recorded states. The source relationship is central to its identity: the composition derives from Rubens, while the particular arrangement of printed marks translates the design into a work whose detail and tonal contrasts can be followed closely across the paper.
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