The Combat of The Bacchae by Alexandre Falguière. Plaster model 1886 now housed in Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris [1249×1198]
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The Combat of The Bacchae by Alexandre Falguière. Plaster model 1886 now housed in Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris [1249×1198]
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[Museum info link](https://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/en/node/228127) These strange Bacchantes caused a scandal at the Salon of 1886: this fierce struggle between two naked women was in fact inspired by a street scene (a vulgar “hair pulling”) that the sculptor transposed into primitive antiquity.