A maenad holding a wine pitcher and Dionysos with panther skin

about A.D. 120

Place of ManufactureAthens, Attica, Greece

Medium/TechniqueMarble from Mt. Pentelikon near Athens

DimensionsOverall: 79 x 58cm (31 1/8 x 22 13/16in.)
Mount (3/16" thick contoured steel base plate/two side securement tabs): 0.5 x 65.6 x 10.2 cm (3/16 x 25 13/16 x 4 in.)

Credit LineGift of Moses Alpers, Mrs. Harvey H. Bundy, Mrs. William H. Claflin III, Joseph Edinburgh, Mrs. Laurence B. Ellis, Mr. and Mrs. De Coursey Fales, Jr., Dr. Ernest Kahn, Dr. Josephine Murray, Mrs. Benjamin Rowland, Jr., Adrian Vermeule, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Weld, Dr. Leonard Wolsky by their contributions to the Classical Department Curator's Fund

Accession number1984.19

On View

On view

ClassificationsSculpture

Collections

Ancient Greece and Rome

ProvenancePrivate collection, England [see note 1]. 1971, Connaught Gallery, London [see note 2]. Possibly Avery Brundage (b. 1887 - d. 1975), Chicago [see note 3]. 1978, Münzen und Medaillen, Basel. By 1983, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York; 1984, sold by Sotheby Parke Bernet to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 18, 1984)

NOTES:
[1] According to information supplied by curator Cornelius Vermeule at the time of its purchase, this sculpture was shown at Spink and Son, London during the 1950s, and had belonged to the British branch of an old aristocratic Sicilian family. It was then with various collectors and dealers in London. [2] Advertised in Apollo, October 1971 (many thanks to Jörg Deterling for this reference). [3] According to curatorial notes, which have not been substantiated, this ownership history was given by Münzen und Medaillen, Catalogue of 1978 Basel Antiquities Fair, cat. no. 310.