# Birth of Bacchus

**Károly Markó, Sr.** (Hungarian, 1793–1860)  
1826 (?)  
Oil on canvas  
55 × 50 cm (21 1/2 × 20 1/2 in.); Framed: 79.1 × 73.1 × 7 cm (31 1/8 × 28 3/4 × 2 3/4 in.)

Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.366. [The museum's record](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/263515).

## About this work

Károly Markó, Sr. painted this in 1826 (?), aged 33. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

### What you’re looking at

A work made of oil on canvas.

_Description from the Art Institute of Chicago._

### How it was made

- **Oil paint.** Pigment ground in a drying oil, usually linseed. It dries slowly, so painters could blend on the canvas, build up thin translucent glazes, and rework a picture over weeks. Canvas replaced wooden panels in the 1500s because it is lighter and can be rolled.

### [Károly Markó, Sr.](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/karoly-marko-sr)

Hungarian, 1793–1860

## Facts

- Type: Painting
- Culture: Hungary
- The artist was 33
- Real size: about 22 × 20 in (55 × 50 cm). The 16 × 20 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 19th century
- Subjects: landscape, classical, Greek mythology, mythological figures, mythology, 19th century, romantic, Neoclassicism
- Colour: brown
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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