Sleeping Bacchante (circa 1885)
This painting is by Hungarian painter Károly Lotz (1833-1904). The Legatus first saw one of his sensual nudes in the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest and was so taken with it I bought a very nice reproduction of it, printed on canvas, which the Old Bat got framed for me when I returned. Lotz studied in Vienna and did most of his nudes early in his career, before shifting focus to frescos. Many of the major public buildings in Budapest, such as the parliament, the supreme court and the opera house have frescoes by him. The depiction of Bacchantes always gave nineteenth century artists a good excuse to depict enticingly sprawled women under a classical cloak of acceptability. This is one of a series of similar paintings he did in the mid eighteen eighties.
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