The Resting Satyr
Italian School
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1800 - 1899
Materials
Marble
Measurements
2200 x 780 x 650 mm
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Cliveden Estate, Buckinghamshire
NT 766245
Summary
Marble sculpture, The Resting Satyr (formerly The Marble Faun or The Faun of Praxiteles), Italian School, 19th century. White marble on oblong York stone base. He leans nonchalantly on his left leg against a tree stump, smiling his left hand on hip, his right holding a pipe, now broken off. A lion skin hangs over his right shoulder, the head hanging on his chest. A cord around his head making a ring of curls around his face. The original marble statue given to the Capitoline museum in Rome by Pope Benedict XIV in 1753 bought from the Villa d'Este and possibly the Faun recorded in their inventory of 1572. In 1797 it was ceded to the French under the terms of the Treaty of Tolentino but arrived back in Rome in 1816.
Provenance
Presented to the National Trust, with the house and grounds, by Waldorf, 2nd Viscount Astor (1879-1952) in 1942
Credit line
Cliveden, The Astor Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Italian School, sculptor
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, 36, fig. 108