European school oil painting on canvas depicting an Arcadian landscape with sculpture and young girl, 19th century. In the style proper to Neoclassicism, the painting proposes an Arcadian landscape with a column holding the herm of the god Bacchus; at its feet a young girl, dressed in classical fashion, offers flowers to the god, according to a ritual of classical antiquity propitiatory to marriage. This type of painting was intended to represent the idealization of ancient Italy, portraying its classical vestiges. The work has been restretched; it shows a marked crack.