1810
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
Bacchus and Ariadne is a 1810 unspecified by Henry Bone, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
Henry Bone spent three years making this enamel copy of Titian’s famous painting. The piece is huge for its kind and shows off Bone’s intense focus and skill. He had to fire each layer of color separately at different temperatures in the kiln. The Prince of Wales wanted to see it before it could go on public display. If you like this kind of careful, time-consuming art, check out Henry Bone.
Henry Bone devoted three years to creating this work, a tremendous technical achievement and the largest enamel on copper that had ever been made. The painstaking process required each application of color to be fired at a different temperature in the kiln. The enamel exactly reproduces Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne (now in the National Gallery, London), an early sixteenth-century Italian masterpiece that had recently come into an English collection. The elaborate carved and gilded wood frame was specially designed for the work, an indication of the cultural value placed on great enamel…
Henry Bone was known for his enamel paintings created through a laborious process of fusing painted glass to copper and firing at controlled temperatures.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Henry Bone (6 February 1755 – 17 December 1834) was an English enamel painter. By c. 1800 he had attracted royal patronage for his portrait miniatures This patronage continued throughout the reigns of three monarchs;…
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