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Old Centaur teased by Eros
Aristeas and Papias of Aphrodisias
1st–2nd centuries AD
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 2.0, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Old Centaur teased by Eros. Roman copy, dating from the 1st–2nd centuries AD, after a Greek original of the 2nd century BC. Marble. Found in Rome in the 17th century, the statue formerly belonged to the Borghese Collection. A grey-black marble statue of the same type was found at {{<|Hadrian's Villa}} in Tivoli together with a grey-black marble statue of the Young Centaur laughing at Eros's wounds. This pair, now in the Capitoline Museums, bears the signature of Aristeas and Papias of Aphrodisias, a city in Asia Minor. It may therefore be assumed that the Louvre statue also originally formed part of a pair. See also Furietti Centaurs, Centaur, Eros, Louvre Museum, and Borghese Collection.
