3-080-386 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Bacchus nursed by the Nymphs of Nyssa, c1827. The myth centres on the god Bacchus, the son of Jupiter and the mortal, Semele, who was reared by the nymphs of Nyssa. In the central group Silenus, a satyr-god, squeezes grape juice into a cup, whilst Bacchus, kneeling on a young goat and tended by one of the nymphs, raises his arm to reach for the drinking vessel.