Dancing Girl (Ariadne?) with a Panther, Bertel Thorvaldsen, 1770-1844, 1816 - 1817, Drawing, In this drawing, Bacchus is present in a different manner from that in so many others of Thorvaldsen’s works. There is no sign here of his usual attributes: vines and thyrsus. Bacchus is seen instead in the shape of a panther, which links the name of Ariadne to the female figure and determines the setting as Naxos. Thorvaldsen made the drawing as a sketch for a sculpture commissioned by Prince Esterházy, but he omitted the panther in the final version. Hence the more sober title of the sculpture:, The Dancing Girl, ., Paper, Color, Ink, Color, Graphite, Drawn, Height 177 mm, Width 137 mm, Draftsmanship, Drawing, European, Modernity (1800 - 1914)
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