Melchior Barthel – Satyr

Satyr • 1662

white Carrara marble, h. 53.5 cm

Provenance: bought in Venice for Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria; described in the inventory of the collection of Archiduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria  (A. Berger, Inventar und Kunstsammlung …, “Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien”, 1, 1883, p. CLXXVI, n. 514l); from 1662 in the Imperial collections of Vienna ; in 1735 reproduced in Prodromus by Frans van Stampart and Anton Joseph von Prenner (pl. 27; here fig. 23); alienated under Maria Theresa (1717-1780)