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AN ITALIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF THE DANCING FAUN
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AN ITALIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF THE DANCING FAUN

19TH CENTURY, AFTER THE ANTIQUE

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AN ITALIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF THE DANCING FAUN
19TH CENTURY, AFTER THE ANTIQUE
Set on a cream marble plinth
31 in. (79 cm.) high overall; the bronze 22½ in. (57 cm.) high
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The Dancing Faun, like the Venus de' Medici with which it was so often paired, was housed in the Tribuna of the Uffizi and was considered to be one of the most beautiful marble sculptures remaining from antiquity, a reputation which it continues to enjoy today. It was first recorded with certainty in a book published by the son of the painter Rubens in 1665, at which time it was already in the Medici collections, and by 1688 it had been moved to its present location (Haskell and Penny, Taste and the Antique, The Lure of Classical Sculpture, 1500-1900.