Sacrifice of a Boar

Description A priest draped in a short garment, holds in his left hand the hind legs of a boar and the culter (a knife) in his right. Behind a round altar rises the image of the god, or more probably of the hero, to whom the nocturnal sacrifice is offered.

Provenance Sale, Galleria Sangiorgi, Rome, April 21, 1902 (?); Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902 (?), by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1902 (?)