Faune Dansant - Paris, France - Epic Beings and Creatures on Waymarking.com

"Faune Dansant" or "Dancing Faun" is an 1850 work by sculptorEugène-Louis Lequesne(1815-1887). It depicts the woodland spirit naked but for a fig leaf... and playing a long flute-like instrument.
The plaque reads:
"FAUNE DANSANT
Eugène-Louis Lequesne

Cette oeuvre a ete realisee a Rome en 1850.
Elle s'inspire du Faune dansant decouvert a Pompei en 1830 et expose au musee de Naples."
which essentially means
"Dancing Faun
Eugène-Louis Lequesne

This work was made in Rome in 1850.
It was insired by the dancing faun discovered
at Pompei in 1830 and put on display
at the Naples Museum."

Fauns were usually depicted as half-man and half-goat. This one obviously isn't.
Wikipedia adds:
"Wikipedia (visit link) adds:
"Romans believed fauns inspired fear in men traveling in lonely, remote or wild places. They were also capable of guiding humans in need, as in the fable of The Satyr and the Traveller, in the title of which Latin authors substituted the word Faunus. Fauns and satyrs were originally quite different creatures: whereas fauns are half-man and half-goat, satyrs originally were depicted as stocky, hairy, ugly dwarfs or woodwoses with the ears and tails of horses or asses."

Time Period: Ancient Approximate Date of Epic Period: 800 BC Epic Type: Mythical Exhibit Type: Figure, Statue, 3D Art

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