In Francesco Righetti's 1794 catalogue 'Aux amateurs de l'Antiquité et des Beaux Arts', the present bronze is described as 'Bacchus et un Faune de Florence', and was available at a cost of 33 zecchini (Haskell and Penny, loc. cit.). It was based on an antique marble group, now as then in the Uffizi in Florence.