Title
A Bacchanalian orgy
(1887)
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- A Bacchanalian orgie
- Date
- (1887)
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on paperboard
- Dimensions
- 20.3 x 43.2 cm board; 37.6 x 60.6 x 2.4 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed l.l. corner, blue oil "GP [monogram]. Nerli". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1969
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- OA21.1969
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Girolamo Nerli
Works in the collection
- Share
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Stampede of the Lower Gods: Classical Mythology in Australian Art 1890's-1930's, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Oct 1989–26 Nov 1989
Italian artists working in 19th century Australia (1993), S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, 24 Sep 1993–21 Nov 1993
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Bibliography
Referenced in 6 publications
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales picturebook, Sydney, 1972, 78 (colour illus.).
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Betty Currie, Girolamo Pieri Nerli (1863-1926), Melbourne, 1976, 9, 16, 17, 19, 20, 23, 34.
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Michael Dunn, Nerli: an Italian painter in the South Pacific, 'Nerli's paintings', pg. 18-54, Auckland, 2005, 19-20. A related work in the collection of the NGA is reproduced in colour on page 61, plate no. 3.
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Michael Dunn, Nerli - An exhibition of paintings & drawings, 'The art of Girolamo Nerli 1860-1926', pg. 11-24, Dunedin, 1988, 14, 32, 104, (illus.), 105, 106. cat.no. 21
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Deborah Edwards, Stampede of the Lower Gods: Classical Mythology in Australian Art, 'The Expatriates', pg. 3-8, Sydney, Sep 1989, 5, 63.
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Editor Unknown (Editor), Art Gallery of New South Wales Quarterly, 'Acquisitions for 1969', pg. 538, Sydney, Jul 1970, 538, 539 (illus.).
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