# Bacchus [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RUBENS, Peter Paul]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, transferred from panel, 191 x 161 cm ## Commentary Bacchus 1638-40 Oil on canvas, transferred from panel, 191 x 161 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg In painting and sculpture, Bacchus is traditionally represented as a slim youth with a handsome face. Rubens's painting does not follow the tradition, Bacchus is depicted as a corpulent, flaccid reveller, seating on a wine barrel. \*\*\* Keywords: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* Author: RUBENS, Peter Paul Title: Bacchus Time-line: 1601-1650 School: Flemish Form: painting Type: mythological ## Related artworks - [A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Albert and Nicolaas Rubens]() - [Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara]() - [Allegorical Glorification of King James I]() - [Allegorical Glorification of King James I]() - [Allegorical Glorification of King James I]() - [Allegorical Glorification of King James I]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()