- Title
- The Vintage
- Date Made
- 1517-1520
- Medium
- Engraving
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 7 5/8 × 6 in. (19.37 × 15.24 cm)
Image: 7 1/2 × 5 3/4 in. (19.05 × 14.61 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.88.91.403
- Collecting Area
- Prints and Drawings
- Curatorial Notes
At right, Bacchus sits above a large tub filled with grapes being harvested for wine, like that which fills the cup held in the god’s left hand. At bottom center, a male harvester fills the container with fruit, while a woman and two children carry more grapes beyond, their statuesque shapes suggestive of ancient Roman sculpture. Given the figures’ resemblance to antique forms, this engraving may have been based on now-lost designs by Raphael after classical statues and sculptural reliefs being discovered in early sixteenth-century Rome. Equally likely is that Marcantonio’s design was based on or otherwise involved the drawing of another collaborator in Raphael’s workshop, Giovanni Francesco Penni, whose drawing in reverse of Marcantonio’s engraving, once in the collection of prominent twentieth-century art historian Leo Steinberg (now in the Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin), may have served as a modello, or preliminary design, for the print.
Claire Spadafora Baes
2025
- Selected Bibliography
- Bartsch, Adam von. The Illustrated Bartsch. New York: Abaris Books, 1978.
