Nanna als Bacchantin

Anna Risi, called Nanna, was Feuerbach's lover and muse. She sat as a model for at least twenty-eight portraits, in which she slipped into a wide variety of roles from mythology, religion and literature. This portrait was painted a year after her first encounter with the painter and shows Nanna as a follower of Bacchus, God of the grape harvest and wine-making.