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. This group is a copy of Giovanni Bologna's bronze of the 'Sleeping Nymph with satyr' (now in the Grünes Gewölbe Museum in Dresden), recorded in the 1587 inventory of the Dresden Kunstkammer and thought to have been presented to Christian III, Elector of Saxony, by Francisco I of Medici as a diplomatic gift. Bologna's figure of the reclining nymph was based on the famous Hellenistic marble of Ariadne (also identified as Cleopatra) in the Vatican.