Sassuolo, Este Ducal Palace, the Bacchus Gallery: "Bacchus makes his triumphal entry into Thebes”. The faux tapestry represents a landscape with trees dominated by the grandiloquent architecture of the gate of Thebes. Bacchus, on an elephant preceded by a court, is triumphantly entering the city. It is one of the forty-one panels with scenes painted by Jean Boulanger which narrate the events of Bacchus. Wall tempera painting, 1650 - 52.
