Apollo swatting at a lizard. Roman copy of a Greek bronze original. The implied action shows how quick and agile the young god is; but the pose is languid, graceful and sinuous, as is typical of all of the sculptures of Praxiteles to survive as Roman copies
Paris, Louvre 441
Purchased from the Louvre in 1884
Lippold: Griechische Plastik, 240 (n.6), pl. 84.3
Encyclopédie Photographique de l’Art; Musée de Louvre III, pl. 190
Louvre Catalogue Sommaire (1922), 26, no.441
Richter: Sculpture & Sculptors of the Greeks (1950), 262-
Lawrence: Classical Sculpture (1928), 247-
Klein: Praxiteles, 109, fig.14
Walston: Catalogue of Casts in the Museum of Classical Archaeology (1889), 78, no.368
Pliny: Natural History XXXIV.70
Formerly in the Borghese Collection, Rome
