The present group, traditionally identified as Pan and Apollo, is a reduction of one of the most celebrated ancient marbles, of which the best known version is in the Museo delle Terme in Rome (Haskell and Penny, loc. cit.). It and another, formerly in the Farnese Collection and now in the Museo Nazionale in Naples (Allison, op. cit., fig. 155), were both recorded as early as the mid-sixteenth century, and inspired numerous amorous adaptations, which however tended to involve protagonists of opposite sexes. The main difference between the two groups is that Apollo looks away in the Naples version, which proves that it was the prototype for the present bronze.