Antique Spanish Art Nouveau Bronze Neo-Classical Sculpture Statue Bacchante 1890 By Gustave Obiols Delgado Recently Added Metropolitan Museum and The British

Metropolitan Museum and The British Museum

Antique American Empire Period Cast Iron Clock

In the autumn of 1851 he went to the Düsseldorf Academy

The cabinet having two adjustable shelves to the inside

The silver dial having black Roman numerals and pierced brass spandrels

Antique Spanish Art Nouveau Bronze Neo-Classical Sculpture Statue Bacchante 1890 By Gustave Obiols Delgado Recently Added Metropolitan Museum and The BritishA very good antique Neo Classical bronze of a Bacchante or Maenad, by Spanish sculptor Gustave Obiols Delgado (1858 1902). The sculpture circa 1890. This large & very attractive, finely modeled bronze depicts a female follower of Dionysus the Greek god of wine, fruit, religious ecstacy, fertility, he was also known as Bacchus, a name later adopted by the Romans. These female figures were also referred to as Maenads, which translates as "raving ones".