Statue of a Centaur with its Base
1800s
- Medium
- Centaur: rosso antico; base: breccia
- Dimensions
- 157 × 63.5 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-241453
A grinning centaur, a mythological creature that is half-man and half-horse, stands proudly in this sculpture. He carries a set of panpipes and an animal skin is draped over his left arm. Colored marble such as this was quite expensive and a popular symbol of wealth in the Roman world. It was used primarily for architectural decoration and occasionally for sculpture. This sculpture, acquired by the Getty Museum as a Roman work and believed to have come from the ruins of the palace of the emperor Domitian, has been recently reexamined. The centaur is covered with pointing marks that are not ancient, and further studies suggest that the sculpture was made as a copy of a Roman statue, although it incorporates ancient fragments. The ancient breccia marble base on which the centaur stands is not original to the statue.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California
Registry history
- 1800s — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — sculpture
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