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The Dance of the Bacchantes   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author
Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre  (1806–1874)  wikidata:Q452119
 
Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre
Alternative names
Charles Gleyre, Marc Charles Gabriel Gleyre
Description French-Swiss painter
Date of birth/death 2 May 1806 Edit this at Wikidata 5 May 1874 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Chevilly Palais Bourbon
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creator QS:P170,Q452119
Title
French:
La Danse des bacchantes

The Dance of the Bacchantes
title QS:P1476,fr:"La Danse des bacchantes"
label QS:Lfr,"La Danse des bacchantes"
label QS:Len,"The Dance of the Bacchantes"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
The Dance of the Bacchantes, the last painting by Gleyre exhibited publicly in Paris (at the Salon of 1849), came as a surprise to enthusiasts of bacchanals, which had been a traditional subject since the days of Titian and Poussin. Bacchus, Silenus and the satyrs are all absent, and the painting is therefore neither mythological nor fabulous, but rather historical and religious. Gleyre paints a mysterious, wild and exclusively female ritual, captured in very precise draughtsmanship and a smooth technique producing what one critic calls the strange effect of a “choreography, which is both noble and unbridled, frenzied and rhythmic”.

Following in the footsteps of A l'instar de Pentheus, The Dance reveals a new, popularised reading of the roots of ancient Greek civilisation and its forms of worship in the 1830s. Contrary to the solar, masculine and Apollonian vision which had been extolled by Winckelmann since the mid-18th century, Gleyre depicts the primitive, eastern and Dionysian Greece, posited in the works of the philologist and historian Friedrich Creuzer.

Subjects drawn from Antiquity provided the painter with the opportunity for a personal and unusual meditation on the origins of the arts, omitting any reference to either Apollo or Orpheus. In The Dance invented by the Bacchantes, the music played to animals in Minerva, the art of spinning taught to an absurd Hercules by the beautiful Omphale, and the love poetry composed by Sappho - the secret of the arts seems to be the preserve of women, acquired through a mysterious and intuitive affinity with the divine powers of creation.
Date 1849
date QS:P571,+1849-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 147 cm (57.8 in); width: 243 cm (95.6 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,147U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,243U174728
institution QS:P195,Q3329523
Accession number
1995-093
Credit line
Français : Acquisition avec un crédit extraordinaire de l’État de Vaud et la participation de Fondation Gottfried Keller, Gonset Holding S.A., Fondation Ernst Göhner, Association des Amis du musée, ATAG Ernst & Young, 1995
Notes
Français : Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts enligne
References Charles Gleyre (1806-1874). The reformed Romantic 9. Musée d'Orsay (2016). Retrieved on October 13, 2017.
Source/Photographer https://underpaintings.com/whats-on-view/charles-gleyre-the-reformed-romantic/

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