Exceptional cast. Reportedly taken from original sculpture in the 17th century. The original piece is either a Greek original or Roman copy. Badly damaged, it was discovered in a Roman moat ca. 1620. Documentary evidence suggests it was one of a number of statues thrown from the battlements in 527 onto invading Goths. The restored Faun passed into the hands of the Barberini family. It is now in the Glyptothek in Munich. A 1726 copy by Edmé Bouchardon is in the Louvre, and another copy, in cast stone and gilded, is at the Peterhof. The Harvard Art Museums calls its cast of the Faun, possibly made at the same time as Cervietti’s, “rare and precious.”