Antique Spanish Art Nouveau Bronze Neo-Classical Sculpture Statue Bacchante 1890 By Gustave Obiols Delgado Redo Gallery of Modern Art Milan

Gallery of Modern Art Milan

In 1843 he studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm

A good antique Dutch/Flemish oil on panel painting

the base having a single 'secret' drawer and the bookcase is raised on tall 'French' bracket feet

Antique Spanish Art Nouveau Bronze Neo-Classical Sculpture Statue Bacchante 1890 By Gustave Obiols Delgado Redo Gallery of Modern Art MilanA very good antique Neo Classical bronze of a Bacchante or Maenad, by Spanish sculptor Gustave Obiols Delgado (1858 1902). The sculpture circa 1890. This large & very attractive, finely modeled bronze depicts a female follower of Dionysus the Greek god of wine, fruit, religious ecstacy, fertility, he was also known as Bacchus, a name later adopted by the Romans. These female figures were also referred to as Maenads, which translates as "raving ones".