''The Triumph of Bacchus'' is a painting by the Walloon artist

Michaelina Wautier Michaelina Wautier, also Woutiers (1604–1689), was a painter from the Southern Netherlands. Only since the turn of the 21st century has her work been recognized as that of an outstanding female Baroque artist, her works having been previously a ...

. It was painted between 1650 and 1656 and is considered one of Wautier's greatest works, as well as one of her largest. Based on classical texts, the picture shows a procession with the drunken god

Bacchus In ancient Greek religion and Greek mythology, myth, Dionysus (; grc, wikt:Διόνυσος, Διόνυσος ) is the god of the grape-harvest, winemaking, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstas ...

at its centre, surrounded by other humans, satyrs and animals. It was possibly commissioned to be part of the large collection of art amassed by Archduke Leopold Willhelm; in any case by 1659 it was noted in an inventory of the collection. It now hangs in the Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna.

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Paintings by Michaelina Wautier 1650s paintings Paintings of Bacchus {{17C-painting-stub