Painting removed from a wall of a room; possibly a triclinium or dining room; in a house in Pompeii in 1749. It shows a bacchant subduing a charging centaur. She kneels on his rump; grabs his hair and beats him with a thyrsus or staff. The centaur has his hands tied behind his back. Copperplate engraved by Tommaso Piroli from his own 鈥楢ntichita di Ercolano' (Antiquities of Herculaneum); Rome; 1789. Italian artist and engraver Piroli (1752-1824) published six volumes between 1789 and 1807 documenting the murals and bronzes found in Heraculaneum and Pompeii.