Satyr pouring Wine (after Praxiteles)
Apollonios of Aphrodisias
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
100 AD - 199 AD
Materials
Fine-grained Parian marble
Measurements
1705 mm (Height)
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486312
Summary
Fine-grained Parian marble sculpture, Satyr pouring Wine (after Praxiteles) by Apollonios of Aphrodisias. 2nd century AD. The torso was found near Rome in 1760 by the painter, archaeologist and dealer Gavin Hamilton. The antique support bears the partly defaced and incomplete inscription: ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΣ…ΕΠΟΙΗΣ ('Apollonios ... made [this]). Apollonios was one of a family of sculptors and worked at Aphrodisias in Caria (modern Turkey) where a signed statute by him has been unearthed. The head, the arms and the lower part of the right leg are the principal additions by Pietro Pacilli. The satyr stands naked looking down with one arm upheld holding bunch of grapes.
Provenance
Collected by Charles, 2nd Earl of Egremont thence by descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72), arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by H.M. Treasury.
Marks and inscriptions
Apollonios ... made (this)in Greek - see General Note
Makers and roles
Apollonios of Aphrodisias, sculptor Pietro Pacilli (1716–1772), restorer after Praxiteles, sculptor