AFTER THE ANTIQUE: A LARGE LATE 19TH CENTURY BRONZE FIGURE OF THE FAUNO ROSSO (RED FAUN) BY CHIURAZZI, NAPLESthe Bacchic faun holding a bunch of grapes in his right hand and staff in his left, raised on shaped base with a tree stump and a woven basket, with a goat resting his front leg on the basket, mid brown patination, signed 'Chiurazzi Napoli',70cm highThe 2nd century AD Roman statue that the present bronze is derived from is now in the Capitoline Museum, Rome. It is carved from distinctive red marble and is itself a copy of a Hellenistic Greek original, depicting a drunken satyr. The Fauno Rosso was discovered at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli and so it is thought that Hadrian commissioned the Roman red marble statue.