The Faun with Pipes (or the Piping Faun)
French School
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1700 - 1729
Materials
Bronze and ormolu
Measurements
633 x 195 x 141 mm
Place of origin
France
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 871606.1
Summary
Bronze sculpture on an ebonized plinth centred by an ormolu motif, The Faun with Pipes (or the Piping Faun), French School, early 18th century. One of a pair of early 18th century French bronzes. The figure is closely copied but with variations from the antique marble in the Louvre, originally in the Villa Borghese by 1638 where it remained until 27 September 1807 when it was purchased by Napoleon Bonaparte, brother-in-law of Prince Camillo Borghese. It was sent from Rome between 1808 and 1811 and was on display in the Louvre by 1815. It was copied for Louis XIV by Simon Hurtelle and Jean-Baptiste Goy. It is itself possibly a copy of a lost original by the Greek sculptor Lysippus.
Provenance
At Saltram by 1951 and accepted by HM Treasury in lieu of full payment of Estate Duty from the Executors of Edmund Robert Parker (1877-1951), 4th Earl of Morley and transferred to NT in 1957.
Makers and roles
French 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, 38, fig. 110