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Jacob Adriaensz Backer: Bacchus and Ariadne  wikidata:Q22570025 reasonator:Q22570025
Artist
Jacob Adriaensz Backer  (1608–1651)  wikidata:Q19032
 
Jacob Adriaensz Backer
Alternative names
Jakob Adriaensz. Backer, Jacobo Adriaensz. Bacquer, Jacob Adriaensz. Bakker, Monogrammist JAB
Description Dutch painter and drawer
Date of birth/death between 27 August 1608 and 31 December 1608
date QS:P,+1608-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1319,+1608-08-27T00:00:00Z/11,P1326,+1608-12-31T00:00:00Z/11
 27 August 1651 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Harlingen Amsterdam
Work location
Leeuwarden (1627–1632), Amsterdam (1633–1651), Vlissingen (1638)
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creator QS:P170,Q19032
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Title
Bacchus and Ariadne
label QS:Lde,"Bacchus und Ariadne"
label QS:Len,"Bacchus and Ariadne"
label QS:Lpl,"Bachus i Ariadna"
label QS:Lfr,"Bacchus et Ariane"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre mythological painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Bacchus and Ariadne Edit this at Wikidata
Depicted people Dionysus Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1630s
date QS:P,+1630-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
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Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 81 cm (31.8 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 67.5 cm (26.5 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+81U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+67.5U174728
institution QS:P195,Q153306
Current location
not on view
Accession number
233180 and 233180 MNW (National Museum in Warsaw) Edit this at Wikidata
Object history 7 October 1942: purchased by Private collection
institution QS:P195,Q768717
from Dorotheum, Vienna
1969: purchased by National Museum in Warsaw (MNW) from Auction House "Veritas", Warsaw
Notes Attribution by Max Jakob Friedländer in 1942. Strong influences of Rembrandt visible in technique (leaves) and in people depicted, the effigy of Bacchus is grotesque, his partner is undoubtedly Ariadne, the princess of Crete abandoned while asleep by Theseus on the Isle of Dia (Naxos).
References

Janina Michałkowa (1970). Nouvelles acquisitions du Département de la Peinture Européenne 1963-1969 in: Bulletin du Musée National de Varsovie. Vol. 11, Pic. 2, pp. 30-32

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