Dancing Faun
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Marble on limestone plinth
Measurements
55 in (Height); 35.5 in (Height)
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Hughenden, Buckinghamshire
NT 429126
Summary
White marble sculpture, Dancing Faun, after the Antique. A white marble figure of the Dancing Faun with cymbals or clappers standing against a trunk on left leg. Right foot attached to, and stepping on, a concertina. Right arm raised and bent towards him while left is held out and down. In each hand holds a cymbal. Smiling face looks down. Stands on a square base and plinth of limestone with dove marble panels.The original was certainly recorded as being in the Tribuna of the Uffizi in Florence by 1688. It was sent to Palermo in 1800 to avoid French seizure but returned to Florence by 1803.
References
Haskell and Penny 1981: Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique, The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500 - 1900, New Haven and London, 1981, 34, fig. 106