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Claude Gillot

The Four Festivals: Festival of Bacchus

c. 1693–1715
etching and engraving

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The lovely bacchantes (female followers of Bacchus) dancing throughout the composition appear in contrast with the beastly satyrs and fauns. The term bacchante could also be used to describe an intoxicated and libidinous woman in less mythological contexts.

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