Bacchanal
by PIERRE, Jean-Baptiste-Marie, Red chalk, 223 x 178 mm
In this bacchanal scene naked nymphs are decorating a herm (a squared stone pillar with a carved head on top, used in ancient Greece as a boundary marker or a signpost). The high level of finish in the drawing suggests it was intended as a complete work on its own, but Pierre might have made a print after it, as he did of several of his drawings.