Masterpieces once stolen and appropriated by Napoleon from the Roman Borghese collection, which became a large part of the core sculpture and painting holdings of the Louvre Museum will return to the Galeria Borghese for a special exhibition in 2012.
Material: Marble
Height: 1.47 metres
Context: Discovered Rome
Original / Copy: Roman copy of Greek statue by a sculptor of Aphrodisias in Anatolia
Style: Hellenistic
Date: C1st - C2nd AD
Period: Imperial Roman
Old Centaur teased by Eros. Roman copy (1st–2nd centuries AD) of a Greek original of the 2nd century BC. Marble, found in Rome in the 17th century, belonged to the Borghese collections. A grey-black marble statue of the same type was found in the Villa Adriana in Tivoli together with a grey-black marble Young Centaur laughing at Eros’s wounds. The pair, now shown in the Capitoline Museums, bear the signature of Aristeas and Papias of Aphrodisias, a city in Asia Minor. It can surmised that the Louvre statue was an element from a pair as well.
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