ALBERT-ERNEST CARRIER-BELLEUSE | DEUX BACCHANTES ET UN HERCULE PORTANT UN VASE (TWO BACCHANTES AND HERCULES SUPPORTING AN AMPHORA)

Auguste Rodin joined the workshop of Carrier-Belleuse in 1864. Although the Deux Bacchantes et un Hercule portant un vase is signed by Carrier-Belleuse, it is generally accepted that the figures were modelled by Rodin and based on the drawings/design of the master. Rodin visited Italy in 1875 and the vase group clearly exhibits the Michelangesque modelling which so much influenced Rodin’s work after this visit. This style is distinguished from the more formal modelling he did earlier in his career under the direction of Carrier-Belleuse, such as the Innocence Tormented by Love, a work on which it is known he collaborated. 

RELATED LITERATURE

H. Jason, “Rodin and Carrier-Belleuse: The Vase of the Titans”, The Art Bulletin, vol. L, New York, 1968, pp. 278-280