Hope Dionysus
The Hope Dionysus is a statue of Dionysus, the god of wine, wearing a panther skin and casually stretching his left arm over a smaller figure of a woman, in a Neo Attic or archaic pose.
This statue, 82 1⁄4 in. (2.1 m) high, dates to between 27 BC and 68 AD. It was once owned by the 18th Century English antiquities collector Thomas Hope (hence the name), and later belonged to a descendant of Benjamin Franklin, before being acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1990.
Further reading
- Phillipe De Montebello (1994). The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. (see index)
External links
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide, a collection catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art containing information on Hope Dionysus (page 308)
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