Provenance
- 1990
Robert Haber (New York, New York), sold to Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman, 1990.
1990 - 1996
Barbara Fleischman and Lawrence Fleischman, American, 1925 - 1997 (New York, New York), donated to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1996.
Not currently on view
Statuette of a Young Satyr Playing the Double Aulos
Unknown
Roman
Roman Empire (Place Created)
A.D. 150–200
Silver with gilding
96.AM.206
4.2 cm (1 5/8 in.)
Gift of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman
This rustic looking youth strides forward playing a double aulos or flute. The instrument is unusual in that it has one straight pipe and one with a flaring, upward-curving end. The youth is nude except for a
Robert Haber (New York, New York), sold to Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman, 1990.
Barbara Fleischman and Lawrence Fleischman, American, 1925 - 1997 (New York, New York), donated to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1996.
Galerie Nefer, Zurich. Catalogue 8. 1990, no. 24.
"Museum Acquisitions Between July 1, 1996, and June 30, 1998." The Report of the J. Paul Getty Trust (1997-98), p. 69.
Grebl, James. "El Poder de la Música en los Mitos y el Arte Clásico." In El Arte de la Música, exh. cat. (Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura, 2016), pp. 121, 263, cat. 11, ill.