Satyr at rest

The Satyr at rest , also known under the name of Satyr anapauomenos (in Greek old ἀναπαυόμενος , of ἀναπαύω / anapaúô , “to rest”) is a sculptor type generally allotted to the Greek sculptor Praxitèle. He is known by nearly 115 specimens, of which most famous is that of the Musées of Capitole.

Description

He represents a Satyre young person, identifiable to his clearly pointed ears and the pardalide (skin of Panthère) which he carries across the chest. He presses his right elbow on a tree trunk, in a position if not very stable that the left leg is hardly used as support. The right leg is folded, the foot fixed behind the left foot: the point of the right foot comes to touch the heel of the left foot. The right hand holds in a certain number of specimens an attribute added by the restorer, often a Flûte or a Panpipes while the left hand is posed on the hip and retains the pardalide. The features of the face are well marked and the slightly impressed nose. The heavy hair of the fauna, which points out the representation of the river divinities, is retained by a cord or a crown.

Attribution

The Satyre at rest is traditionally identified like the “satyr periboêtos ” mentioned by Pline in its Natural history : “made out of bronze a Liber Lord's Prayer, and a famous Intoxication, and a satyr whom the Greeks call periboêtos ” (“ and nobilemque Liberum patrum Ebriatem una satyrum quem Græci periboeton cognominant ”). Since Winckelmann, this word is traditionally translated by “famous”. This celebrity would explain the fortune of the type, one of most widespread of the Mediterranean basin: one counts some in a little less than 115, which about fifteen come from Rome, four of North Africa, eight of Greece, two of Spain and one of Gaulle.

Some specimens

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