Dionysus with a Satyr

Description In Hellenistic and Roman art, Dionysus is shown as a beardless youth, contrasting with his appearance on vases. The god is represented here leaning drunkenly on a member of his entourage while still holding his drinking rhyton (horn-shaped cup).

Conservation

Dionysis and the Satyr has active chloride corrosion. The local spots of corrosion were treated by applying 3% benzotriazole, a copper corrosion inhibitor, in ethanol.

Date	Description	Narrative
1/11/1965	Treatment	repaired; other
1/14/1965	Treatment	cleaned
11/22/2017	Treatment	Treated for exhibition

Exhibitions

• Serapis: The Creation of a God. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2002.

Provenance Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1925