The two Centaurs, which are now in the Musei Capitolini in Rome, are reported to have been found in December 1736 during the excavations carried out by Monsignor Furietti at Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli. The appeal of the statues, not least on account of their being a pair, was very considerable. Most of the copies were in bronze or marble (Haskell and Penny, loc. cit.); another oddity of the present pair is that the younger is clearly female.