The Escape of the Bacchantes

The Escape of the Bacchantes  is an original modern artwork realized by  Ferdinand Bac  (1859 - 1952) in  1922 .

Signed  and dated on plate on the lower right corner:  F. Bac 1922.

Original Lithograph on ivory paper.

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T he Escape of the Bacchantes   is   an elegant Liberty Lithograph realized by Ferdinand Bac in the second decade of the XX Century in France.  The work, in full Liberty style, represents some women covered by transparent veils who are running with amphorae on their heads. The scene is very dynamic; behind them, several men are running behind them. The figures are in a structure covered by sqared bricks and are walking quickly up the stairs.

This work has been realized the French artist  Ferdinand Bac  (1859 - 1952). Ferdinand-Sigismond Bach, known as Ferdinand Bac was a French cartoonist, artist and writer, son of an illegitimate nephew of the Emperor Napoleon. As a young man, he mixed in the fashionable world of Paris of the Belle Époque, and was known for his caricatures, which appeared in popular journals. He also traveled widely in Europe and the Mediterranean. In his fifties, he began a career as a landscape gardener.  He attended Adolphe Thiers, Gambetta, Richard Wagner, Victor Hugo, Taine, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Paul Verlaine, Maurice Barrès, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Alphonse Daudet, Guy de Maupassant, Verdi, Gounod, Pierre de Nolhac, and many more other famous people of the time. He established himself as one of the first cartoonists and caricaturists of his time, as famous as Albert Robida, Job, Sem, Jean-Louis Forain or Caran d'Ache. Ferdinand alternated between Colombières and a beautiful mansion in Compiègne that also belonged to the Ladan-Bockairys. There he met Marcel Proust, Jean Cocteau, Gabriele D'Annunzio and Anna de Noailles. Until the end of his life, Ferdinand Bac continued to travel, write and draw, reflecting on the political and historical development of the world.