Dancing Faun
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1830 - 1899
Materials
Bronze, Marble
Measurements
365 mm (H); 102 mm (W); 127 mm (D)
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Sizergh Castle, Cumbria
NT 998586
Summary
Bronze sculpture, Dancing Faun. Dancing fawn, stepping forward, arms aloft; on oblong base with stand of Sienna marble. The original was discovered at Pompeii in 1830, it is possibly a copy of a Hellenstic work.
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, 35, fig. 107