Keywords: Backer Bacchus and Ariadne.jpg Artwork Creator Jacob Adriaensz Backer s 1630 oil on canvas cm 81 67 5 Institution National Museum Warsaw Not on view accession number 233180 object history ProvenanceEvent 1942-10-07 purchase Private collection Dorotheum Vienna ProvenanceEvent 1969 purchase National Museum in Warsaw Auction House Veritas Warsaw credit line Attribution by Max Jakob Friedländer in 1942 Strong influences of Rembrandt visible in technique leaves and in people depicted the effigy of Bacchus is grotesque his partner is undoubtedly Ariadne the princess of Crete abandoned while asleep by Theseus on the Isle of Dia Naxos Janina Michałkowa 1970 Nouvelles acquisitions du Département de la Peinture Européenne 1963-1969 in Bulletin du Musée National de Varsovie Vol 11 Pic 2 pp 30-32 PD-old-100 DEFAULTSORT 1633 circa; Bacchus and Ariadne Paintings by Jacob Adriaensz Backer in the National Museum in Warsaw Erotic paintings in the National Museum in Warsaw Paintings of Bacchus and Ariadne 1630s paintings |