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Self-Portrait as the Sick Bacchus

The god of wine, painted from a mirror.

What

The young Caravaggio as Bacchus, crowned in ivy, holding white grapes above a stone ledge set with peaches and black grapes.

Why

Cardinal Scipione Borghese took it from the Cavaliere d’Arpino’s studio in 1607, and it has hung in the Borghese collection ever since.

Notice

The skin: a greenish pallor no flatterer would paint, which gave the picture its name.

“Even the god of pleasure has his mornings after, and the candour is the luxury.”

Format

The full-resolution, colour-managed file — yours to print and keep. Editions ship with their certificate.

Sized to protect print quality — this source supports sizes up to 27x41" cleanly.

Size

$49.00

Honesty

Reproduction

A faithful reproduction of a public-domain work. Source: Galleria Borghese, Rome, 534.

Kind: reproduction
Artist: Caravaggio
Era: Caravaggio, c. 1593
Source: Galleria Borghese, Rome

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Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (source published 1930 or earlier). Cleared by registry on 2026-11-01. Galleria Borghese, Rome, 534. Wikimedia Commons imageinfo + wikitext read 2026-11-01: 2991x4000 image/jpeg; licence template {{PD-art-100-expired}}; extmetadata License=pd.