# Old Centaur teased by Eros

- By: Aristeas and Papias of Aphrodisias
- Date: 1st–2nd centuries AD
- Classification: Sculpture
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Centaur_%26_Cupid,_Louvre_Museum.jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY-SA 2.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)
- Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Centaur_%26_Cupid%2C_Louvre_Museum.jpg/1920px-Centaur_%26_Cupid%2C_Louvre_Museum.jpg
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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.