Antique Spanish Art Nouveau Bronze Neo-Classical Sculpture Statue Bacchante 1890 By Gustave Obiols Delgado Drawings & Prints the base with four graduated

the base with four graduated drawers with the original Rococo brass hardware

the kovsh decorated with stylized multi-color floral & foliate motifs against a silver ground

Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827)

was born in 1949 in Kamburu Village

Since then

Antique Spanish Art Nouveau Bronze Neo-Classical Sculpture Statue Bacchante 1890 By Gustave Obiols Delgado Drawings & Prints the base with four graduatedA 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".