From a Greek original of the 4th century BCE.
Height 125 cm. Inv. No. S 239.Rome, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo Nuovo, GalleryPhoto by Sergey Sosnovskiy
Statue of Satyr.
From a Greek original of the 4th century BCE.
Height 125 cm.
Rome, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo Nuovo, Gallery
(Roma, Musei capitolini, Palazzo Nuovo, Galleria).
From the 18th cent. — Rome, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo Nuovo, Hall of the Faun.
Since 1818 — Rome, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo Nuovo, Gallery.
60. Satyr with a flute (pl. 22)
H. 1.295 m.
Parian marble.
Restored: of head, nose, l. horn, tip of r. ear, the l. ear, neck. Both hands and wrists with flute, piece of nebris on breast; second toe of l. foot. The head is antique, but does not belong.
The torso is a copy of the same original as No. 12, though of somewhat better workmanship. The support is without the pedum and the ox in relief and herein agrees with the majority of the other copies. The head should be turned somewhat towards the left shoulder and the flute (tibia vasca, not a pipe) should be held across the mouth and the lips placed to the side of the upper end.
The head, though on the same scale, differs from the heads remaining unbroken on other replicas. It is the head of a somewhat older youth, the face is more oval and of a finer form. The hair round the forehead is upright, whereas in the heads of the torso-type the central locks only are brushed up. The horns grow through and under the hair and curve backwards close to the skull in the manner of the Polyclitan Pan, whereas in the heads belonging to this torso the horns appear as small knobs on the forehead below the hair-line.
Arndt refers the original of this head to the Praxitelean circle about the date of the Hermes of Olympia.
This statue was placed in the Stanza del Fauno when acquired and removed to its present place in 1818. Nibby (ap. Mori, loc. cit.) states that it was found on the Aventine with No. 12; but the second Faun discovered on that occasion was of the type of the Resting Satyr (Ficoroni, Gemmae Antiquae, p. 140 = Mem. 94, ap. Fea, Miscellanea, I, p. clxiv); and Nibby’s statement seems to arise from a misunderstanding of Descr. 1750 (p. 28), where only one of the flute-playing Satyrs is said to have been found on the Aventine.
Inv. Albani, D 16.
Mori, II, Ercole 20;
Montagnani-Mirabili, I.1 55 = I.2 50;
Righetti, I. 53;
Clarac, 705, 1676 (p. 399 R);
Armellini, III. 223;
Klein, Praxiteles, p. 212, n. 1, No. 6;
Arndt-Amelung, Nos. 411—
Cf. text, II, p. 31 (head only).
See also on No. 12.
C.R. 720 A, 421 A (g).
2005. Text: museum information (F).
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© 1912. Description: H. Stuart Jones, A catalogue of the ancient sculptures preserved in the municipal collections of Rome. The sculptures of the Museo Capitolino. Oxford, 1912. P. 133, no. 60, pl. 22.
