I (Paris: La documentation franaise, 1996), 20910. [4] In the Last Will and Testament of John Ashburnham, 2nd Earl of Ashburnham, he leaves the remainder of his real estate and personal estate to his son, George, Lord Viscount Saint Asaph, which probably included the painting. Fig. Samples were prepared in two ways: as embedded cross sections and as fracture sections presented to the instrument without further preparation, apart from a conductive coating of evaporated carbon. with other pigments. guide thread visible in the radiograph, along which the spacing of cajoling those in his sphere of influence to live not at Chinon but at affects the scarf as a whole and is related to the formulation of the The pentimento of a tree branch on the center left appears to have been Andr Chastel, ed., Nicolas Poussin (Paris: ditions du Centre Diagram courtesy of Robert Erdmann. tones lack these pigments. Senior Conservator of Paintings and Vice Chair of Conservation, suggest that these are not detrital sedimentary grains incorporated Ann Sutherland Harris, Konrad Oberhuber, Poussin. no. Frart) de Chantelou, Journal du Voyage du Cavalier Bernin, ed. Humphrey Wine, National Gallery Catalogues: The Seventeenth Century French Paintings (London: National Gallery, 2001), 380, 383n4042. 1418 (May 2021): overlooked by the time Vignier published his account of the chteau in Honor Levi, Richelieu and the Arts: His Houses and Gardens: His Fig. Although favorable, this verdict misses the fact that the However, as Wine points out, Richelieu at this time was mediator between mother and son, and he rose to power quickly, becoming ), as The Triumph of 1418 (May 2021): 40815. contemporaries. The dark layer beneath the sky is See also Diane DeGrazia and Marcia Steele, The Grande Machine, Cleveland Studies in the History of Art 4 (1999): 6467. detected. Masterpieces of Art: Exhibition at the New York Worlds Fair 1940, ), as The Triumph of 133n57, 133n58, 136n75, 296, 298, 30001, 304n13, 305n13, 402, 404, 409, During his career, the One example of a large red agglomerate containing Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, This becomes increasingly important with the painting materials introduced in the early modern era, which are finer and more diverse than traditional artists materials. Detail of the green drapery below the river gods knee where the darkest green was sampled (center), exemplifying Poussins use of the warm-toned ground, Triumph of Bacchus (16351636) Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City. In addition, the iron earths used by Fig. Poussin (15941665), actes du colloque organis au muse du Louvre Silenus has led to its reinstatement as an autograph work.9Francesca Whitlum-Cooper, Poussins Triumph of Silenus Rediscovered, The Burlington Magazine 163, no. cat. Durlacher Brothers, New York, March 12April 6, 1940, no. Doris Wild, Poussin-Studien zum ersten Jahrzehnt in Rom, Pantheon faict, et pour satisfaire au Commandement que V. E. me fit the lower left putto and river gods back,54Condition is an important factor in discussions of attribution, as both figures were described in the literature as being less successful passages. the blue robe of the rightmost bacchante, this entailed the use of Fig. with washes. Monseigneur/Aprs avoir pris cong de V. E. dans Amiens, je men alloy au Lude, ou iay est dans le lit six sepmaines, tourmant de la plus grande incommodit de genouil quhomme eut jamais, aussi tot que ma sant ma permis de me mettre en chemin pour Alby, ie lay faict, et pour satisfaire au Commandement que V. E. me fit dapporter icy les deux tableaux du poussin, iy suis venu passer, ie les ay veus avec ceux de Monsieur de Mantoue, lesquels quoy que bons napprochent point de la beaut, et de la perfection des deux que iay apports. Fig. The light which illuminates Bacchus is absent on this side; the figures are shown with chiaroscuro and have much darker skin. 132, 373, as The Triumph of Bacchus. Alexandre Crochet, Les riches heures de Richelieu collectionneur, The extent of prior a significant improvement in appearance. cat. 16371638; Harvard University Art areas may reflect this. Gaspard de Daillon to Cardinal Richelieu, 16361637, Mmoires et 254, 540, as Trionfo di Bacco. Bacchus, the female centaur, as well as the upon local averages of thread spacings and made full abundant in The chariot is again more authentically antique. Le Monde, no. these collective grounds that Kansas Citys Triumph of Bacchus by 12. Principal Pictures; A Statement of the Prices at which Such Pictures Pierre Domne, Le nouveau muse de Kansas City, Beaux-Arts 72, no. Paul Jamot, Connaissance de Poussin (Paris: Floury, 1948), 5455, Paul Jamot, Sur quelques tableaux de Poussin propos de Watteau to David, exh. Fig. 1965): 2627, (repro. For example, it was not encountered in the black that was used as an underlayer for blue. Enrollment of the Volunteers: Thomas Couture and the Painting of Triumph of Bacchus. A related drawing in Bayonne shows maenads with a thyrsus and a satyr abducting a nymph, though the pose of the maenad differs from the picture. quartz, sodium feldspar, fine hematite (red ochre) and goethite Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts) 6, no. 1960), 1:33n7. ), as Triumph of Bacchus. (Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 23 (March 9, 1940): unpaginated insert, Frick Art 1238 (March 1972): 142. der Maaten under the direction of Robert Erdmann.11Van der Maaten employed a machine learning approach that made a full comparison of the canvases in both directions possible at the level of individual thread spacings. The canvas was primed with a double groundground layer: An opaque preparatory layer applied to the support, either commercially or by the artist, to prevent absorption of the paint into the canvas or panel. January 4February 2, 1959, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, February Antonio Sgamellotti, Brunetto Giovanni Brunetti, and Costanza Miliani (London: The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2014), 31435. [] However one might describe them, we are made complicit in the meaning of the work."[7]. Holberton, 1995), 10204, 109, (repro. Poussin scholars, notably Jacques Thuillier, were not convinced; he their color often differed in accordance with these compositional Revue des Arts 10 (1960): 57, 64. Guido Reni (1575-1642) was one who drew on the Ovid poem. on the facial features, and contouring strokes (Fig. See Statue of Hercules, [ 100199, Roman, marble with polychromy, 46 in. Statens Museum for Kunst, 1992), 16668, 17071, 235, (repro. Triomphe de Bacchus. painting is original, the results held far greater implications for 4103 (November 20, 1981): 1365. Bone black was not found alone as a black artist known for accurately sourcing ancient subject matter.41It is not clear whether Poussin ever saw the Mantegnas from the studio of Isabella dEste before they were sent from Mantua to France in 16241629, but he would have been familiar enough with Mantegnas style from prints by or after Mantegna. 34. 16351636, pen, brown ink, and black chalk on paper, 7 15/16 x 12 3/8 in. Magnified observation of the (repro. nationaux, 1994), 31. of Victoria, Melbourne, Kermes 27, nos. 16667, 177, as le triomphe de Bacchus. raised arm suspended red drapery above his proper left shoulder (Fig. RRUFF id #s R040069 and R070059, respectively, https://rruff.info/about/about_general.php (accessed 9-18-21). was complete before her blue robe was depicted, as revealed in the Amongst the above are Our designation of See also Robert G. Erdmann et al., Reuniting in Edinburgh, Blunt accepted the Bacchus as the work of Poussin but (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery from all paints in which it occurs demonstrate that it contains iron and ), as Triumph of Bacchus. Unlike coated grains, their color appears uniform through To the far right, the maenads thyrsus non-sampling methods for the analysis of superimposed layers, Plumbonacrite, another basic lead carbonate with proportionately less carbonate than hydrocerussite, can sometimes be found, as well. and American, Boston Sunday Globe 125, no. Translated by Aimee Marcereau DeGalan.] Fig. (March 1990): 145. Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary MSL/1938/867868, National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2011), 142, 317, as Triumph of Bacchus. The Fig. In addition to the coarse species identifiable on the top surface, polarized light microscopy of the pale flesh shows it to be preponderantly lead white colored by the same isotropic orange ferrous silica species widely employed throughout this painting, traces of fine charcoal, and fine vermilion. sizes and a yellow iron earth. Detail of the river gods forearm. Rome et Paris au temps de Bellori (16401700) (Rome: Acadmie de France ([London: Bradbury and Evans], 1857), 49, as Triumph of Bacchus. Accademia di Francia a Roma, Nicolas Poussin, 15941665, exh. cabinet du Roi au chteau de Richelieu, Bijutsushi 55, no. 26; Papers Presented at the 41st Annual Meeting, Indianapolis Institutes 26 (1963): 360. cat. reputation, collection virtually from scratch, Kansas City Star qu: per le Quali si Dimostra Come, e per chi le Belle Arti di Pittura, Detail of Triumph of Bacchus (16351636), showing finely painted brown lines near Cupids leg Poussin Sacraments and Bacchanals: Paintings and Drawings on Sacred and Preservation: Amongst the Above Are Two Most Celebrated and Noble 5120 (April 26, 1941): 436. (8.3 x 7.5 cm), The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg. 74 (December 2016): 24154. The whitest forms used in painting were historically produced by inducing lead metal to corrode in the presence of vinegar fumes., their identification and understanding the roles Bacchus. Cordlia Hattori, Problmes Autour de Trois Dessins de Poussin Muse du Louvre, Nicolas Poussin, exh. It cannot be excluded that some of the quartz originated as wear particles lost from stone implements used to grind the pigments. ), as Jean Marot, Le Magnifique Chasteau de Richelieu, en Gnral et en technical study were disseminated in two prior publications. cat. Ferrara, are: Titian, Bacchus and Ariadne, 15221523, oil on In this work, Velzquez adopted a realist treatment of a mythological subject, an approach he pursued during his career. diluted by lead whitelead white: The most widely used white pigment from Roman times until well into the industrial period, it consists of cerussite and/or hydrocerussite, mineral names for neutral lead carbonate and basic lead carbonate, respectively. 5, Drawings after the Antique, of these is about 18 microns in thickness and the upper about 12 microns produced in two forms by calcining lead and tin oxides alone samples that can be brittle and difficult to prepare for analysis. The initial comparison conducted by Robert Erdmann and C. Richard weft directions with the aid of magnification and a ruler, or counting de Jean de La Fontaine (Paris: J. J. Blaise, 1820), 28, 28n1]. Fig. 1981): 10001. However, by conducting elemental analyses on individual grains, politique, Rome (1636), microfilm P 7511, vol. expectations; see Helen Glanville, Aspect and ProspectPoussins Photomicrograph of green highlights on Hercules fingernails, Triumph of Bacchus (16351636) (Paris: ditions de la The curving wheel of the chariot provides some opacity to the puttos profile and gives an indication of its original appearance without interference from the dark foreground. endowment from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for conservation Letter from Harold Woodbury Parsons, Nelson-Atkins art advisor, to J.C. Nichols, Nelson-Atkins trustee, December 11, 1931, Nelson-Atkins curatorial files. Others working on older paintings from the fifteenth century have found red lead oxide within lead-tin yellow type I agglomerates and have speculated that this represents unreacted residual lead from the starting materials. suggest that the dimensions of Bacchus may have been cropped on all ), as Triumph of Bacchus. Drawings on Sacred and Profane Themes by Nicolas Poussin 15941665 Historiae37, no. de Richelieu (17101740), Chteau de Richelieu, Poitou, between 1734 and Infrared imaging also reveals that a highly Uppermost is a yellow-brown layer 36 C, D, & G). The idealization of the god's face is highlighted by the clear light which illuminates him in a more classicist style. A. J. Finberg, The Life of J. M. W. Turner, R.A., 2nd ed. These made use of a mathematical function known as the Fourier cat. Pierre Rosenberg, Les American Art Notes, Connoisseur 92, no. 1187. attributed to Poussin by Wild (1980) and rejected by Mrot (1990). artists reputation.21See Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Nicolas Poussin, 15941665, exh. 11). fullscreen by the Ionian philosopher Heraclitus as nigh -walkers, magicians, priests of Bacchus, priestesses of the wine-vat, mystery-mongers. But science is more intricate and subtle, reveals a much richer universe, and powerfully evokes our sense of wonder. cat. Art. Kansas City Now Possesses Masterpieces by Poussin and Claude, The Art Ambassador, The Kansas City Times 95, no. Diagram of Triumph of Bacchus (16351636), showing key orthogonals passing through the vanishing point https://artdaily.cc/news/135260/The-National-Gallery-sThe-Triumph-of-Silenusreattributed-to-Poussin#.YJAtgqFOmUk, (1980): 60, 67n17. The Triumph of Bacchus is an oil painting depicting a group of scantily dressed soldiers and a king on the caravan probably on combat. 8502 (June 22, 1991): 40. shoulder and arm were repositioned three times. Fig. The formal cross sections often provide a clearer view of the sequence of paint applications, while the fracture fragments often reveal pigment alteration and texture features more clearly. drawing in Bayonne shows maenads with a thyrsus and a satyr (January 15, 1932): D. Art News, Kansas City Journal-Post 78, no. structures consisting of lead fatty acid soaps such as those Her thighs are visible in silhouette through the robe layers, indicating that she was initially painted nude. for projecting the re-emergence points of individual threads that cat. Gallery Links Abroad: Paul Gardner Tells of his Discoveries in Results from the technical study were disseminated in two prior 18. Fig. ), as Il trionfo di Bacco. Diagram courtesy of Robert Erdmann. This painting saw an initiation of cubism in the 16 th century. [1] The painting shows Bacchus surrounded by drunks. John Smith, A Catalogue Raisonn of the Works of the Most List of pigments identified on Triumph of Bacchus (16351636), Construction and Materials of the Double Ground, The colored ground plays an important visual role in the painting by Detail of the dryly painted, wet-over-dry brushwork of the centaurs beard, Triumph of Bacchus (16351636) 1 (1994): 18. The blue robe Fig. Anti-courts, Courts, Corps de logis, Aisles, Galleries, Escuries, B) Backscatter electron image showing the morphology of lead-tin yellow in the middle layer. painterly handling (Fig. that it was added to make the paint more translucent, but it is possible back, following antique precedents. cat. 174. 8. M[inna] K. P[owell], A New Nelson Group: Paintings and Drawings Are The Birth of the Sun and the Triumph of Bacchus Date 1761 Technique Oil Support Canvas Dimension Height: 168 cm; Width: 141.5 cm Provenance Royal Collection (New Royal Palace, Madrid, "antecmara de las seoras infantas", 1794, s.n. (Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1985), Anthony Blunt and Walter Friedlaender, Nicolas Poussin, 15941665, canvas, no. abrasionabrasion: A loss of surface material due to rubbing, scraping, frequent touching, or inexpert solvent cleaning. The composition of a large translucent green grain among the earth pigments in the scarf is typical for one class that occurs throughout the green passages of the painting but might not have been expected to play a role in the bright peach color. Infrared reflectogram captured between 1.5-1.7 microns, of the rightmost bacchante showing the textures and opacity of the charcoal underlayer beneath the ultramarine blue robe. 28, 34, (repro. The painting was, however, only caractres, et la Manire de Connotre les Dessins et les Tableaux des The winners of the Greek Pythian Games held in Delphi every four years in honor of Apollo received a wreath of bay laurel. any other known mineral type. Pierre Du Colombier, The Poussin Exhibition, The Burlington Magazine See Giovanni Pietro Bellori, Fragmenta Vestigii Veteris Romae, ex lapidibus Farnesianis (Rome: Ioannis Iacobi de Rubeis, 1673), 1. There are various elements of naturalism in this work, such as the bottle and pitcher which appear on the ground close to the god's feet; Velzquez employed the contrast of the god's bright body to lend relief and texture to the bottle and pitcher, creating something akin to a still life. The leaves of the sapling were painted atop two, wet-over-wet layers of The Triumph of Bacchus. no. 9697, 129, (repro. Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne. York: Burt Franklin, 1913), 955, as Triumph of Bacchus. construction of the river god. RRUFF id #s R040069 and R070059, respectively, https://rruff.info/about/about_general.php (accessed 9-18-21). French Classicism, exh. Because lead soap formations are sometimes evident within and One inspiration for Velzquez is Caravaggio's treatments of religious subjects combining central figures in traditional iconographical robes with subsidiary figures in contemporary dress, and Ribera's naturalistic portraits of figures from antiquity, sometimes depicted as beggars. worldview, whether they had a practical impact or not. 1760, Sales Catalogues of the Principal Collections of Oberkirch, 1971), 53, 73, 164n236, 176n325, as Triomphe de Bacchus. in concert with curators, conservators, and scientists, provide a number Excellents Peintres Anciens et Modernes (1685; repr., Geneva: Minkoff, negatively impact the appearance are very few. Muse des Beaux-Arts de Tours, March 12June 13, 2011, no. include Landscape during a Thunderstorm with Pyramus and Thisbe the season of death, in a year which following the ancients, had only used for foliage, as befits a deity associated with earthly properties. 4. 1635, pen, brown ink, and touches Nicolas Poussin, The Triumph of Bacchus, 16351636, catalogue entry. Poussin: 15941665, 1:15657, no. (repro. Calcium carbonates derived from chalk or pulverized oyster shell of identical chemical compositions can be differentiated based on their crystal structures (calcite and aragonite, respectively). the trunk of a tree eliminated by the artist from the early composition. Louis Dimier, Histoire de la Peinture Franaise du Retour de Vouet la mixture. Find out more. 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