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| Keywords: Eustache Le Sueur - Bacchus and Ariadne.jpg Artwork Creator Eustache Le Sueur ~ 1640 Oil on canvas in 69 49 5 Institution Museum of Fine Arts Boston object history Possibly Marie-Jeanne Bécu Comtesse du Barry b 1746 - d 1793 Paris; February 17 1777 possibly in the du Barry sale Paillet Paris lot 20 see note 1 1789 Philippe-Louis Parizeau b 1740 - d 1801 Paris; March 26 1789 Parizeau sale Paillet Paris lot 32 bought in; May 24 1792 Parizeau sale Hôtel de Bullion Paris lot 63 bought in see note 2; March 11 1793 Parizeau sale Paris lot 43 1966 private collection; 1966 sold from this private collection through an unknown intermediary to Heim Gallery Paris; 1968 sold by Heim to the MFA see note 3 Accession Date December 11 1968 exhibition history credit line Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow Fund and Grant Walker Fund Ariadne daughter of King Minos of Crete helped the Greek hero Theseus escape from her father's infamous Labyrinth but Theseus abandoned her soon after on the island of Naxos She was rescued by Bacchus god of wine who is seen here rushing in from his ship He honored her by flinging her crown up into the sky where it became a constellation of stars The figures in Le Sueur's paintings have a cool monumentality that suggests sculpture; the pose of Ariadne comes from ancient Roman sarcophagi and that of Bacchus from the renowned classical statue the Apollo Belvedere accession number 68 764 http //www mfa org/collections/object/bacchus-and-ariadne-34033 Eustache Le Sueur Paintings of Bacchus and Ariadne 1640s mythological paintings French paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston Pink clothing in art male Blue clothing in art female 1640s paintings from France 1640s oil on canvas paintings in the United States Mythological paintings in the United States Mythological figures in nature Paintings of people in nature Paintings of topless sitting women PD-old-auto-1923 1655 | ||||
