XAVERY, Pieter
(b. 1647, Antwerpen, d. ca. 1680, Leiden)

Faun

1671
Terracotta, height 35 cm
Private collection

This statuette, together with a statuette of Bacchus in the same collection, belonged to the same ensemble of which the group of Bacchanal was part. They have the same late 18th-century wooden bases which would indicate that they were not separated only after this. Additional surviving figures from this ensemble of Bacchants are not known.

Suggested listening (streaming mp3, 11 minutes):
Claude Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune