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Bacchus
Real-world connection
No single real-world viewpoint
A studio figure with a still life; the mountain coordinate is spurious.
- Date
- 1510-01-01
- Real-world link
- Real-world connection
Where the original is now
Department of Paintings of the Louvre
On view — Salle 710, Aile Aile Denon, Niveau 1
Verified from a live museum source on 2026-09-05
Sources
- Musée du Louvre, Paris — collection record for ‘Bacchus’, Département des Peintures, inv. INV 780 (MR 325); oil on walnut panel transferred to canvas, c. 1510–15. The Louvre gives it to the workshop of Leonardo da Vinci; the original figure — painted as a Saint John the Baptist — is sometimes attributed to Francesco Melzi, and Wikidata records that attribution explicitly as ‘attributed’, not certain. The staff-cross was later changed to a thyrsus and a vine crown and leopard skin added, turning the saint into a Bacchus (collections.louvre.fr)
- Louvre catalogue note on the St John / Bacchus conversion; Frank Zöllner, ‘Leonardo da Vinci: The Complete Paintings’ (Taschen) — workshop works