Domenico Piola
The Triumph of Bacchus

ArtistItalian (Genoese), 1627–1703
CultureItalian
Titles
  • The Triumph of Bacchus
Datec. 1642–1703
MediumPen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over red chalk, squared for transfer with red chalk on laid paper
DimensionsSheet: 9 1/16 x 12 3/16 in. (23 x 31 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Marjorie G. and Evan C. Horning Print Fund
Object number2015.260
Non exposé

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ProvenanceThe artist, Genoa, 1642-1703; Anonymous 18th century French mountmaker ARD (Lugt 172); private collection, France; [Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London, by May 2014-2015]; purchased by MFAH, 2015.
Exhibition History"Michelangelo and the Vatican: Masterworks from the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 11–June 10, 2018.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Signed in brown ink, bottom right corner: Lepiola [cursive]

Verso: [inaccessible]
Recto: Signed in brown ink, bottom right corner: Lepiola [cursive]

Verso: [inaccessible]
Recto of mount: mountmaker's drystamp, lower right: ARD

Recto: [none]

Verso: [inaccessible]

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