The Triumph of Bacchus

A facsimile of a drawing then in the collection of Sir J. Reynolds, the current whereabouts of which are unknown. The drawing, which is attributed on plate to Raphael and was later ascribed to artists of his School (Giulio Romano/Penni), is thought to be one of the existing versions of a design originally commissioned from Raphael by Alfondo d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, for his 'Camerino d'Alabastro', and now lost. The print was published in 'Imitations of Ancient and Modern Drawings', London 1789, plate 41. Other drawings of this subject are in the British Museum, London (inv. no.1895,0915.582) and in the Albertina, Vienna (inv. no.444). Further versions of the composition include a painting by Garofalo in Dresden, and two frescoes, one of which was executed by Perino del Vaga on the vault of the Loggia degli Eroi in Palazzo Doria, Genoa, and the other by Girolamo da Carpi in the Castello in Ferrara. A sheet now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, is described as a copy after the drawing reproduced in this print (see Macandrew 1980, A97).