A bronze statuette of Silenus, standing naked and with his left elbow leaning on a tree trunk, holding the naked infant Bacchus in his arms. Set on a rectangular base. This bronze statuette is a reduced version of an original antique Roman marble sculpture which had been rediscovered in Rome during the Renaissance (now in the Musée du Louvre). It became greatly admired by artists and collectors and it was extensively reproduced, in particular during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.