October from the Twelve Months Panels
Artist
Karl Theodore Francis Bitter
(Austrian/American, 1867-1915)
Date1892-93
CultureAmerican
MediumMarble
ClassificationSculpture
ProvenanceKarl Theodore Francis Bitter [1867 - 1915], by 1891; Collis Potter Huntington [1821 - 1900], 1891 - his death 1900; inherited by his wife Arabella Huntington, 1900 - her death 1924; inherited by Henry Huntington, 1924 - 1926; purchased at auction by John Ringling, 1924- 1936; donated to the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 1936 - present.
Credit LineBequest of John Ringling, 1936
Object numberSN11657.10
October is the month of vintage, and most of the panel is taken up by children picking grapes or drinking wine. The seated figure drinking from a wineskin is imagined as a bacchant, a follower of the Roman wine god Bacchus, to whom the goat (seen at center) was sacred.
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On viewLocation
- Museum of Art, Gallery 21
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