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Dionysus with a Satyr

Greek (Artist)
2nd-1st century BCE (Hellenistic)
bronze
(Ancient Greece )

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).

Provenance
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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.

Exhibitions

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

Conservation

Date Description Narrative
1/11/1965 Treatment repaired; other
1/14/1965 Treatment cleaned
11/22/2017 Treatment Treated for exhibition
11/22/2017 Treatment 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.
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Greece (Place of Origin)

Measurements

H: 5 7/8 × W: 3 1/4 × D: 1 15/16 in. (14.9 × 8.3 × 4.9 cm)

Credit Line

Acquired by Henry Walters, 1925

Location in Museum

Centre Street: Second Floor: Greek Art

Accession Number

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54.1035

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