2-645-697 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Los Borrachos', (The Triumph of Bacchus), 1628-1629, (c1934). A 1628 painting by Diego Velazquez, now in the Museo del Prado, in Madrid. The painting shows Bacchus surrounded by drunks. It is popularly known as Los borrachos or The Drinkers (politely, also The Drunks). In Baroque literature, Bacchus was considered an allegory of the liberation of man from the slavery of daily life. Oil on canvas. Held in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. From Galerias De Europa: Museo Del Prado, by A. De Beruete y Moret & Augusto L. Mayer. [Editorial Labor, S.A., Barcelona, c1934]