Resting Satyr
- Title:
- Resting Satyr
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Unknown (Roman copy)
attributed to Praxiteles (Greek original)
- Photographer:
- Mihaloew, Andreya
- Date:
- ca. 1900
2nd c. CE (Roman copy)
ca. 350-330 BCE (Greek original)
2015 (image)
- Site:
- Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli or Palatine Hill in Rome, Italy (reported discovery site, first half of the 1700s) (original)
- Location:
- Warehouse
Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli or Palatine Hill in Rome, Italy (reported discovery site, first half of the 1700s) (original) - ID Number:
- CCC_0848
- Accession Number:
- „the marble faun" (sticker on plinth)
179 - File Name:
- CCC_0848.tif
- Original Measurements:
- 170 (H) cm
- Culture:
- Roman, after Greek
- Style/Period:
- Roman Imperial, after Greek Classical
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
- Materials/Techniques:
- plaster cast (sculpture)
marble sculpture in the round (Roman copy)
bronze (?) (Greek original) (original) - Subject:
- Satyrs (Greek mythology)
- Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from front
- Measurement:
- 170 (without plinth) (centimeters, height)
plinth: 12 x 69 x 49 (centimeters, height x width x diameter) - Description:
- This is a well-preserved cast of a Roman copy of a youthful satyr at rest attributed to Praxiteles and housed in the Capitoline Museum in Rome. The standing satyr tilts his head slightly to his left and looks straight ahead with a calm, perhaps vaguely quizzical or amused expression. Long, pointed ears project from the well-kempt, mid-length mane of curly hair that surrounds his face. The skin of a panther is slung over his right shoulder and across his body, the face of the animal over his right breast. The young woodland creature rests his right elbow on a tall, roughly chiseled tree trunk, places his weight on his straightened left leg, and rests his right leg back. He places his left hand on his jutting left hip and curves his torso to produce the characteristic Praxitelean s-curve. The satyr's musculature is softly rendered. Missing from this cast are the right hand and the little finger of the left hand. In the original, the right forearm and hand, left arm and hand, nose, head and other small parts of the panther skin, and a few other, minor pieces are modern restorations. Over one hundred copies of the type are known, strongly suggesting the popularity of the original statue in antiquity. It has been attributed to Praxiteles based on its similarity in pose to the Apollo Sauroktonos and the Hermes and Infant Dionysos, both attributed to Praxiteles, and also based on a troublesome reference in Pausanias (I.20.1). This cast was cleaned/conserved in winter 2014-2015. The image attached to this record is of the object as conserved. From January until July 2015, this object was exhibited in the Bartels Gallery, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, as part of an exhibition titled "Cast and Present: Replicating Antiquity in the Museum and the Academy."
- Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
no. MC0739 - Bibliography:
- Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981), 209-210
Elizabeth Bartman, Ancient Sculptural Copies in Miniature (Leiden: Brill, 1992), 51-101
J.-L. Martinez, "Les satyres de Praxitèle," in Praxitèle, exposition au Louvre (Paris: Éditions du Louvre & Somogy, 2007), 236-291
Andrew Stewart, Greek Sculpture (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990), 280, fig. 510
Aileen Ajootian, "Praxiteles," in Olga Palagia and J. J. Pollitt, eds., Personal Styles in Greek Sculpture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 91-129, esp. 110-113 and 116 - Repository:
- Cornell University (current)
Rome, Capitoline Museums (original) - Collecting Program:
- Cornell Collections of Antiquities
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The images in the Cornell Collection of Antiquities: Casts are protected by copyright, and the copyright holders are their creators, generally Cornell University Library, Annetta Alexandridis, and Verity Platt. This collection of plaster casts owned by Cornell University was photographed by Cornell University Library, Alexandridis, Platt, and Andreya L. Mihaloew from 2010-2015, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Annetta Alexandridis. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact Annetta Alexandridis and Verity Platt for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.