Art, literature & history
Bacchus
1874-1880
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pastel over graphite with metallic paint on wove paper mounted to paperboard
- Dimensions
- overall (two sheets): 63.82 × 42.86 cm (25 1/8 × 16 7/8 in.) mount: 66.99 × 49.53 cm (26 3/8 × 19 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2015.19.715
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
John Singer Sargent. Bacchus. John Singer Sargent; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Corcoran Collection (Gift of Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormond, sisters of the artist, 1949). CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Bacchus — John Singer Sargent. 1874-1880.
Medium: pastel over graphite with metallic paint on wove paper mounted to paperboard.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall (two sheets): 63.82 × 42.86 cm (25 1/8 × 16 7/8 in.) mount: 66.99 × 49.53 cm (26 3/8 × 19 1/2 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2015.19.715. Corcoran Collection (Gift of Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormond, sisters of the artist, 1949).
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.