Sculptor - Frederick MacMonnies
Title -
Bacchante and Infant Faun
Sand Cast Bronze
H. Rouard Foundry
Cast Number 66
Circa 1895
16 1/2" Tall
(42 cm)
An 83" size model of this sculpture by Frederick MacMonnies was cast by the Thiebault Freres foundry and offered as a gift to the Boston Public Library by the architect Charles Follen McKim in 1896. The sculpture was to be placed in the garden court of the library. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union caused such a public outcry citing its "drunken indecency" that the gift was refused by the library. McKim gave the statue to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York where it resides today. The spectacle that was made regarding this gift gave MacMonnies and this model a great deal of notoriety in the United States. A model of Bacchante and Infant Faun is in the permanent collections of most of the museums in the United States and France. It is MacMonnies best know sculpture.
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