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Having been abandoned on the Greek island of Naxos, the mythological princess Ariadne was discovered by Bacchus, god of wine, who fell in love with her. In Dalou\u2019s plaster she is tenderly awakened by the deity while a mischievous faun (a half-human, half-goat creature) attempts to distract the couple with an offering of grapes.<\/p>\n

Aim\u00e9-Jules Dalou was a prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux<\/a> and spent his early years studying the art of the 18th century. His first success came with images of modern life, such as nursing mothers and infants, but he later undertook allegorical subjects and historical statues for public commissions in France\u2019s Third Republic. This plaster was exhibited at the annual Paris Salon in 1892 and later used as the model for a marble version, now at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n","short_description":"Aim\u00e9-Jules Dalou's first success came with images of modern life, but he later undertook allegorical subjects and historical statues for public commissions. This work depicts the mythical princess Ariadne and Bacchus, the god of wine. Having been abandoned on the Greek island of Naxos, Ariadne is tenderly awakened by the deity while a mischievous faun attempts to distract the couple with an offering of grapes.","dimensions":"81.3 \u00d7 54.6 \u00d7 54 cm (32 \u00d7 21 1\/2 \u00d7 21 1\/4 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":54,"width":54,"height":81,"diameter":null,"clarification":null}],"medium_display":"Plaster","inscriptions":null,"credit_line":"Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Arma Wyler","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":null,"exhibition_history":null,"provenance_text":null,"edition":null,"publishing_verification_level":"Web Basic","internal_department_id":14,"fiscal_year":1983,"fiscal_year_deaccession":null,"is_public_domain":true,"is_zoomable":true,"max_zoom_window_size":-1,"copyright_notice":null,"has_multimedia_resources":false,"has_educational_resources":false,"has_advanced_imaging":false,"colorfulness":13.5114,"color":{"h":57,"l":9,"s":0,"percentage":0.3618906295824524,"population":3307},"latitude":null,"longitude":null,"latlon":null,"is_on_view":true,"on_loan_display":null,"gallery_title":"Gallery 222","gallery_id":2147483607,"nomisma_id":null,"artwork_type_title":"Sculpture","artwork_type_id":3,"department_title":"Painting and Sculpture of Europe","department_id":"PC-10","artist_id":30850,"artist_title":"Aim\u00e9-Jules Dalou","alt_artist_ids":[],"artist_ids":[30850],"artist_titles":["Aim\u00e9-Jules Dalou"],"category_ids":["PC-10"],"category_titles":["Painting and Sculpture of Europe"],"term_titles":["statuette","Greek mythology","nineteenth century","sculpting","plaster","nudes","mythology","mythological figures","mythical","love","Greek gods","fauns\/satyrs\/pan","children","19th century","modeling (forming)","french","coating (material)","sculpture","women","men","emotions"],"style_id":"TM-15636","style_title":"nineteenth century","alt_style_ids":["TM-13203"],"style_ids":["TM-15636","TM-13203"],"style_titles":["nineteenth century","19th century"],"classification_id":"TM-114","classification_title":"statuette","alt_classification_ids":["TM-14976","TM-13"],"classification_ids":["TM-114","TM-14976","TM-13"],"classification_titles":["statuette","french","sculpture"],"subject_id":"TM-12707","alt_subject_ids":["TM-8649","TM-8766","TM-12704","TM-15159","TM-12167","TM-12633","TM-9136","TM-10118","TM-8735","TM-10121","TM-10122"],"subject_ids":["TM-12707","TM-8649","TM-8766","TM-12704","TM-15159","TM-12167","TM-12633","TM-9136","TM-10118","TM-8735","TM-10121","TM-10122"],"subject_titles":["Greek mythology","nudes","mythology","mythological figures","mythical","love","Greek gods","fauns\/satyrs\/pan","children","women","men","emotions"],"material_id":"TM-2439","alt_material_ids":["TM-3238"],"material_ids":["TM-2439","TM-3238"],"material_titles":["plaster","coating (material)"],"technique_id":"TM-12999","alt_technique_ids":["TM-3912"],"technique_ids":["TM-12999","TM-3912"],"technique_titles":["sculpting","modeling (forming)"],"theme_titles":[],"image_id":"a56fc9da-6724-44d8-e268-1c6a929700e9","alt_image_ids":[],"document_ids":[],"sound_ids":[],"video_ids":[],"text_ids":[],"section_ids":[],"section_titles":[],"site_ids":[],"suggest_autocomplete_all":[{"input":["1983.25"],"contexts":{"groupings":["accession"]}},{"input":["Bacchus Consoling Ariadne"],"weight":2841,"contexts":{"groupings":["title"]}}],"source_updated_at":"2026-05-20T14:26:36-05:00","updated_at":"2026-10-01T20:19:11-05:00","timestamp":"2026-10-19T14:16:15-05:00"},"info":{"license_text":"The `description` field in this response is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic License (CC-By) and the Terms and Conditions of artic.edu. All other data in this response is licensed under a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) 1.0 designation and the Terms and Conditions of artic.edu.","license_links":["https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/publicdomain\/zero\/1.0\/","https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/terms"],"version":"1.16"},"config":{"iiif_url":"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/iiif\/2","website_url":"https:\/\/www.artic.edu"}}