Cleveland Museum of Art
Bacchanales: The Satyr's Dance
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French, 1732–1806) · 1763
On the left side of the composition, standing inside a large vessel like an umbrella in a vestibule, is a pinecone-topped staff called a thyrsus. Thyrsi were carried by Bacchus and his followers.
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