Another example of this pair of busts, in the collection of Schloss Pommersfelden, was convincingly attributed to Soldani by Weihrauch by virtue of their similiarity in style and facture to the documented bronze busts after the antique by him in the Liechtenstein collection.
While it has already been observed that the present bronzes do not appear to derive from antique models, it has not previously been recognised that the prototype for the faun survives in the Hermitage (Liebmann, loc. cit.). Although currently attributed to Baccio Bandinelli, the marble bust in question was traditionally thought to be the work of Michelangelo, and would consequently have struck Soldani as an appropriate source of inspiration. The correspondence of the heads is exact, but Soldani has omitted the fruit from the hair and modified the disposition of the goatskin.