# Bacchanal [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [XAVERY, Pieter]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Terracotta, 37 x 61 x 23 cm ## Commentary All of Xavery's known dated works were done between 1670 and 1674. Some of these works serve to ornament building in Leiden, but he really made his name as a modeller of small terracotta groups. In the Bacchanal the central figure is Silenus, a wise but inevitably drunken old man who was considered to be responsible for the education of Bacchus. The donkey which Silenus traditionally rides has stumbled over a panther, which is also part of Bacchus's entourage. A satyr holds up the drunken Silenus. ## Related artworks - [Bacchus]() - [Faun]() - [Hurdy-Gurdy Player]() - [Two Laughing Jesters]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()