A Marble Torso of a Young Satyr, Roman Imperial, circa 1st/2nd Century A.D.

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

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Description

A Marble Torso of a Young Satyr, Roman Imperial
Height 22 in. 55.9 cm.

based on a Greek prototype of the late 4th/early 3rd Century B.C. , standing with the weight on his right leg, and wearing a panther skin knotted on his right shoulder, draped across his chest, and falling over his left arm and back.

Provenance

The Archaeological Shop, Hilton Hotel, Tel Aviv, 1970
Collection of Senator Frank R. Lautenberg, New Jersey

Catalogue Note

For the young satyr standing with his legs crossed and playing the double flute, a popular statuary type in the Roman period known in over 52 copies, see A. Zimmermann, Kopienkritische Untersuchungen zum Satyr mit der Querflöte und verwandten Statuentypen, Bern, 1994. Also see LIMC, vol. VIII, 1997, p. 1130, pl. 782, E. Angelicoussis, The Holkham Collection of Classical Sculptures, Mainz am Rhein, 2001, pp. 89-91, and F. Schröder, Katalog der antiken Skulpturen des Museo del Prado in Madrid, vol. 2, Mainz am Rhein, 2004, pp. 127f.