A bronze group of a nymph surprised by satyr. The nymph reclines over cushions and draperies on a chaise longue with her right arm extended over her body and her folded left arm resting over her head. The satyr crouches at her feet, resting his left arm on her right leg, advancing to surprise her. Set on a gilt bronze plinth decorated with laurel leaves and Jupiter's arrows. Giambologna’s nymph, first modelled in the 1580s, was based on the ancient Roman statue of Ariadne in the Vatican. With the later addition of the satyr the group was sometimes interpreted as Jupiter in disguise, preparing to ravish Antiope. Charles I’s inventory of 1639 includes: ‘A naked woeman lyeing uppon her back. A Satire coming to enterprise her in her Sleepe’.