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SATYES, ETC.
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thrown back, and clashing cymbals, a motive which
occurs in several extant statues of Satyrs. So much,
however, has been supplied to this statue that the
original action cannot now be ascertained. The restora-
tions have been skilfully made.
Parian marble. Height (without plinth), 5 feet 9 inches. Formerly
in the Rondinini Palace at Rome. Brought to England by
T. Shew and purchased for the Museum in 1826. Mus. Marbles,
XL, pi. 41 ; Guattani, Hon. Ined., Sept., 1788, p. 71, pi. 3 ;
Ellis, Town. Gall, I., p. 238 (= Vaux, Handbook, p. 177);
Clarac, IV., pi. 714, fig. 1703; Mansell, No. 812; Grceco-Roman
Guide, I., No. 118.
1656. Satyr and infant Dionysos. A young Satyr stands on
tiptoe, with the left foot advanced. He holds the babe
Dionysos on his extended left hand. He wears a goatskin
knotted on the left shoulder, and holds it over the left
arm, with grapes and other fruit in the fold. He has
budding horns, Satyr's ears, and a wreath of pine. His
(restored) right arm is waving a pedum above bis head.
He looks laughingly towards the child on his hand, who
holds a bunch of grapes in the left hand and lays the
other upon the fruit. The child wears a wreath of ivy.
A tree stump beside the Satyr helps to support the left
arm. Beside it is a panther, which looks upwards, with
the right paw resting on a goat's head. A pair of cymbals
are suspended from the stump. The group stands on a
roughly-moulded antique base.
The restoration of the right arm is probably correct,
since a part of the pedum is said to be antique, on a
similar figure at Naples. It has also been suggested,
with less likelihood, that the right arm may have held up
a bunch of grapes, as in the accepted restoration of the
Hermes of Praxiteles.
The group in its present form appears to be a combina-
tion of two not very congruous motives, namely, the
Satyr dancing on tiptoe, which is a common theme in the
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thrown back, and clashing cymbals, a motive which
occurs in several extant statues of Satyrs. So much,
however, has been supplied to this statue that the
original action cannot now be ascertained. The restora-
tions have been skilfully made.
Parian marble. Height (without plinth), 5 feet 9 inches. Formerly
in the Rondinini Palace at Rome. Brought to England by
T. Shew and purchased for the Museum in 1826. Mus. Marbles,
XL, pi. 41 ; Guattani, Hon. Ined., Sept., 1788, p. 71, pi. 3 ;
Ellis, Town. Gall, I., p. 238 (= Vaux, Handbook, p. 177);
Clarac, IV., pi. 714, fig. 1703; Mansell, No. 812; Grceco-Roman
Guide, I., No. 118.
1656. Satyr and infant Dionysos. A young Satyr stands on
tiptoe, with the left foot advanced. He holds the babe
Dionysos on his extended left hand. He wears a goatskin
knotted on the left shoulder, and holds it over the left
arm, with grapes and other fruit in the fold. He has
budding horns, Satyr's ears, and a wreath of pine. His
(restored) right arm is waving a pedum above bis head.
He looks laughingly towards the child on his hand, who
holds a bunch of grapes in the left hand and lays the
other upon the fruit. The child wears a wreath of ivy.
A tree stump beside the Satyr helps to support the left
arm. Beside it is a panther, which looks upwards, with
the right paw resting on a goat's head. A pair of cymbals
are suspended from the stump. The group stands on a
roughly-moulded antique base.
The restoration of the right arm is probably correct,
since a part of the pedum is said to be antique, on a
similar figure at Naples. It has also been suggested,
with less likelihood, that the right arm may have held up
a bunch of grapes, as in the accepted restoration of the
Hermes of Praxiteles.
The group in its present form appears to be a combina-
tion of two not very congruous motives, namely, the
Satyr dancing on tiptoe, which is a common theme in the