a Adolphe Bouguereau A Bacchanalia Scene with Drunken Bacchus, Satyrs and Bacchantes. Black chalk with white chalk heightening on grayish blue laid paper mounted on card stock, circa 1884 275 x 370mm 10.875 x 14.625inches. Ex-collection unknown

a Adolphe Bouguereau A Bacchanalia Scene with Drunken Bacchus, Satyrs and Bacchantes. Black chalk with white chalk heightening on grayish blue laid paper mounted on card stock, circa 1884 275 x 370mm 10.875 x 14.625inches. Ex-collection unknown collector, ink stamp lower left recto (not in Lugt). The present work relates to Bouguereau's Education of Bacchus, oil, 1884, private collection, in the figural studies and general composition. Similar chalk studies are known for the Nymphs and Satyr, oil, 1873, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown (see d'Aregencourt, et als., William Bouguereau, 1825- 1905, Montreal, 1984, plates 55-61 and