Parmi ses nombreux autoportraits, Lafage s’est parfois plu à placer son effigie dans un médaillon au milieu de scènes bachiques. À l’image de son Portrait allégorique (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Inv. NM 2681/1863 ; voir P. Bjurström, French Drawings : Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 1976, n° 427) ou de la Bacchanale sur une place publique devant un palais (Besançon, musée des Beaux-Arts, D.1690), il y a tout lieu de penser que la présente Bacchanale illustre aussi un autoportrait de Lafage, très esquissé dans le médaillon.
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The sheet of paper is hinged to the mount along the four corners on the verso with strips of Japanese conservative paper. The paper is slightly dirty along the edges with minor foxing. The paper is fragilized on the corners with minor tears along the edges and it has been repaired with tiny pieces of Japanese conservative paper. In a gild and carved wood frame.