A Marble Figure of the God Pan, Roman Imperial, 1st/early 2nd Century A.D.

after a Hellenistic prototype, the goat-legged shepherd deity striding with his left leg advanced, his head lifted with his mouth open as if in a song, his right arm formerly raised, the lagobolon cradled in his left arm, and wearing a goat skin knotted on his right shoulder and covering the chest and back down to and over the tree-trunk support behind, his face with full beard, long moustache, deep-set eyes, and furrowed brow, the hair surmounted by a smooth rounded cap and escaping in unruly curls above the forehead and on to the neck; formerly restored: hooves, right arm and flute, part of left arm, lagobolon, and nose.

William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale (1787-1872), Lowther Castle, Penrith, Westmoreland, acquired between 1848 and 1868
Henry Lowther, 3rd Earl of Lonsdale (1818-1876)
George Henry Lowther, 4th Earl of Lonsdale (1855-1982)
Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale (1882-1944)
Lancelot Lowther, 6th Earl of Lonsdale (Maple & Co., Ltd., and Thomas Wyatt, Lowther Castle, near Penrith, Cumberland. The Major Part of the Earl of Lonsdale’s Collection, April 29th-May 1st, 1947, no. 2313, part: “a satyr, a marble figure, probably representing Pan, right hand outstretched, holding pipes, 27in. high”)
English private collection
acquired by the current owner on the Paris art market

Adolf Michaelis, Ancient Marbles in Great Britain, Cambridge, 1882, p. 490, no. 8 (“Figure of Pan, standing on an altar”)

“Pan lived in Arcadia, where he guarded flocks, herds, and beehives, took part in the revels of the mountain nymphs, and helped hunters to find their quarry. He was, on the whole, easy-going and lazy, loving nothing better than his afternoon sleep, and revenged himself on those who disturbed him with a sudden loud shout from a grove, or grotto, which made the hair bristle on their heads” (Robert Graves, The Greek Myths, vol. 1, London, 1955, par. 26c, based on Theocritus, Idylls, I, 16, Euripides, Rhesus, 36, and Hesychius, sub Agreus Theocritus, Idylls, VII, 107).