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Birth of Bacchus

Károly Markó, Sr. · 1826 (?)

Palette

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Artist

Károly Markó, Sr.

Date

1826 (?)

Type

Painting

Medium

Oil on canvas

Size

55 × 50 cm (21 1/2 × 20 1/2 in.); Framed: 79.1 × 73.1 × 7 cm (31 1/8 × 28 3/4 × 2 3/4 in.)

Place

Hungary

Period

Neoclassicism · Romanticism · 19th century

Themes

Landscapes · Myths and legends

Main colour

Brown · lightness 41, colourfulness 16

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of The Salgo Trust for Education. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules