The Faun with Pipes also known as The Little Fluter
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Bronze
Measurements
190 mm (H); 78 mm (Dia)
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Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 25979
Summary
Bronze sculpture, The Faun with Pipes also known as The Little Fluter. A figure of a boy playing pipes, on bell-shaped base. Unclothed and left shoulder draped with lion skin. Supported by tree trunk attached by nut and screw. It is a copy after an antique statue that was in the Villa Borghese, Rome by 1638. It was purchased by Napoleaon Bonaparte in 1807 together with the bulk of the Borghese antiquities frpm his borther-in-law Prince Camillo Borghese and has been in the Louvre in Paris since 1815.
Provenance
Purchased from the estate of the late Lord Wraxall with the assistance of the NHMF and donations from members and supporters.
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, 38, fig.110