In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
Part of a series of six paintings that decorated Etienne Bartholony's house in Paris, these paintings emulate ancient Roman designs. Crisp, cut out forms are set against a gold background painted in imitation of mosaic. Arion was an ancient Greek poet who escaped death by riding away on the back of a sea creature who had been attracted by the poet's song. In the companion picture, a bacchante—a female worshipper of the wine god Bacchus—rides on a panther, the god's symbolic animal. These works were shown at the 1857 Paris Salon exhibition.
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Giampietrino (Giovanni Pietro Rizzoli) — Diana the Huntress
Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Peña — Diana
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo — A Female Allegorical Figure
Henry Bone (British, 1755–1834) — Bacchus and Ariadne
Lucas Cranach the Elder — Eve
Stefano della Bella — A woman in profile pulling back on a r
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo — A Female Allegorical Figure
Pinturicchio — Triumph of Cybele
Marcantonio Raimondi — Prudence as a young woman, sitting on
John Singer Sargent — Venus and Cupid
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)|Marco Dente — Fortitude 
Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Reclining Nude (La Source)
