Statue depicting the god Bacchus, standing, right hand on hi - Lot 108

Statue depicting the god Bacchus, standing, right hand on hip, left hand raised, with pronounced contrapposto. A tree trunk-shaped prop glued to the right leg supports the sculpture. The forehead is encircled by a crown of grapefruits. The nebride, a deer skin attributed to Dionysus and his followers, is attached to the left shoulder and falls to the pelvis, which it surrounds. The sex is concealed by a restoration. Marble. H. 1.39 m. Roman art, 2nd century, possibly based on a classical Greek original. The unidentified model is reminiscent of other imperial types published by Salomon Reinach, for example in Répertoire de la statuaire grecque et romaine, II. 1, 1897, p. 118, no. 2 and III, 1904, p. 31, no. 4. Gaps and old restorations. The sculpture is composed of antique elements for the head and part of the torso, and numerous restorations, probably carried out at different periods since the 17th or 18th century, which may have altered the original iconography. Provenance: bought in Rome around 1910, by M. Louis BRINQUANT (1848-1945), under the patronage of Count Giuseppe Primoli (1851-1927), great-grandson of Lucien Bonaparte and founder of the Napoleonic Museum in Rome. Louis BRINQUANT, collector and member of the Société d'histoire de Paris et de l'Ile-de-France, belonged to Parisian society. He appears several times in SEM's caricatures, in the Les Acacias series, in the company of personalities of the period. Then by descent.