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Bacchus and Ariadne, by Antoine-Jean Gros

by Thomas W. Gaehtgens

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Notes

*I am grateful to Gabriel P. Weisberg for reading the English version of this manuscript.

1 D. and G. Wildenstein, Documents complémentaires au catalogue de l'oeuvre de Louis David (Paris: 1973), p. 217, no. 1864.

2 Ibid., p. 219, no. 1877.

3 J.-B. Delestre, Gros, sa vie et ses ouvrages, (Paris: 1867) pp. 229-31 and 372; J. Tripier Le Franc, Histoire de la vie et de la mort du Baron Gros (Paris: 1880), pp. 366, 368-370, 676; J. Harithas, Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture in the Phoenix Art Museum Collection (1965), pp. 50-51, nos 65-60.

4 D. and G. Wildenstein, op cit., p. 221, no. 1891.

5 Explication des ouvrages de peintre...de Salon de 1822, p. 71, no. 616. "Ariane abandonné par Thésée dans l'Ile de Naxos, est recueillie et consolée par Bacchus. Répétition du tableau appartenant à M. le Comte de Schoenborn à Mayence."

6 Philostratus, I 15.

7 A. Pigler, Barockthemen, II (Budapest: 1974), pp. 46-51

8 The painting is now in the National Gallery, London. See also the iconographical interpretations of Titian's painting in C. Gould, The Studio of Alfonso d'Este and Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne (London: 1969); Harold E. Wethey, The Paintings of Titian, III (London: 1975), p. 148, no. 14.

9 The depiction of this scene is relatively rare in the iconographical tradition. For details see the literature cited in note 8.

10 Reproduced in C. Gnudi and G. C. Cavalli, Guida Reni (Firenze, 1955) pls. 168 and 169.

13 Diderot, op. cit., p. 79.

14 The drawing cornes frorn the Gaston Delestre Collection, Paris.

15 The sketch belonged later to J. B. Delestre and Gaston Delestre, and was exhibited in Paris at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts: Dessins de l'École Moderne 1884, No. 367. J. B. Delestre, op. cit., p. 374; J. Tripier le Franc, op. cit., p. 682.

16 Vente de l'atelier du Baron Gros; November 23, 1835, No. 59. I am grateful to M. François Delestre for pointing out that no other drawing of this subject is to be found in the collection of Gros's drawings held by the Delestre family.

17 Ibid., no. 75.

18 Exhibition catalogue. De David à Delacroix: La Peinture Française de 1774 à 1830 (Paris-Detroit-New York: 1974-1975), p. 371, no. 36, pl. 124; and p. 373, no 38, pl. 177.

19 Ibid., p. 372.

20 Ibid., p. 654, no. 194, pl. 45.

21 Ibid., p. 474, no. 94, pl. 138. This catalogue contains further literature on Guérin.

22 Ibid., p. 388, no. 45, pl. 170.

23 Ibid., p. 402, no. 53, pl. 169.

24 J. Jules David, Le peintre Louis David (Paris: 1880), pp. 547-551, pl. 650; L. Hautecoeur, Louis David (Paris: 1954), p. 269. The painting is reproduced in R. Verbraeken, Jacques-Louis David jugé par ses contemporains et par la postérité (Paris: 1973), fig. 67.

25 Ibid., p. 650.

26 Moniteur, 1822, p. 673.

27 Ibid., p. 674.

28 Loc. cit.

29 Ibid., p. 694.

30 Ibid., p. 786.

31 L'Observateur et Arlequin aux Salons, Critique des tableaux en vaudeville (Paris: 1822), p. 9.

32 Journal de Paris, May 1, 1822.

33 1822 Salon, no. 615. The painting was in the collection of Louis-Philippe in the Palais-Royal.

34 J. Tripier le Franc, Histoire de la vie...du Baron Gros (Paris: 1880), p. 370.

35 Catalogue de la Vente de M. B...[H. Bizet], se composant à peu près de l'oeuvre complète de M. le baron Gros, May 21, 1828, Paris, rue de Cléry, pp. 23-33, no. 5.

36 E. Delacroix, "Gros," in Revue des Deux Mondes, September 1 , 1848.

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