Bacchus (Becchante)
Date unknown
Bacchus (Becchante) is a portrait by the Russian artist Victor Stember.
This painting has come to the family as a postcard bought on E-Bay. The information is written in Russian but has the artist written in Cyrillic as well as English as 'V. Stember'.
There appears to be a series of nude or semi-nude paintings of Stembers' that have similar flower and ivey backgrounds and also were made into postcards. See # 142, 143,145,151,157.
This Work Appears In
- Studio photograph 20 — 1909. This is the first studio Stember had in St. Petersburg and was on Galernaya Street.
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