drunken faun

drunken faun , late 1700s

Where object was made: present-day Italy

Material/technique: bronze

Credit line: Gift from the Edward A. and Inge Maser Collection

Accession number: 2008.0274

Not on display

Add to portfolio

If you wish to reproduce this image, please submit an image request

Images

Label texts

Empire of Things

This small bronze sculpture is a copy of a statue found at Villa of the Papyrus (Herculaneum, Campania, Italy) now at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Naples, Campania, Italy). A drunken faun reclines on a large rock over which a lion skin has been thrown, and his arms and feet are in momentous action.