Mainades or Maenads, also called Bacchants, are figures from Greek mythology. They are nymphs who accompany and worship Dionysos (god of wine, pleasure and dance). Many are oreads, naiads and other nymphs, but mortal women can also become mainads.
Here we see a bachante, a woman, naked on the ground and is playing with an animal, a goat.
Adolphe Williams Bouguereau (La Rochelle, November 30, 1825 - there, August 19, 1905) was a French academic painter. He is best known as William Bouguereau, the name by which he signed his works. He achieved the most success with his academic nudes, but was also criticized for those works.
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