The Faun with Pipes
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Bronze, Wood
Measurements
270 mm (H); 85 mm (W)
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Sizergh Castle, Cumbria
NT 998587
Summary
Bronze sculpture, The Faun with Pipes. A boy with flute, leaning on tree-trunk; on oblong base with ebonised stand. The Faun was in the Villa Borghese by 1638 and was purchased by Napoleon and is now in the Louvre, Paris.
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