CIMRM 587 - Marble statue. Rome. Once Louvre, now Warsaw.

A stand-alone marble statue, heavily restored, found in Rome, then sold to the Louvre. Now in Warsaw.

Information from Wikimedia Commons:

Date: from 2nd century until 3rd century Dimensions: 123 cm (48.4 in) Current location: National Museum in Warsaw (NMW). Accession number: 143396 MNW (MND 2215) Object history: deposited to National Museum, Warsaw by Louvre, Paris References: Wladyslaw Tatarkiewicz (1985). Historia estetyki. Vol. 1. Arkady. ISBN 83-21330-49-5, p. 323

CIMRM entry

587. White marble statue (H. 1.25 Br. 1.33). At first in Rome, Villa Borghese, afterwards in the gardens of Fontainebleau, nowadays Paris, Louvre (cf. Inv.manuscript Louvre, No. 991). Turre, Mon. Vet. Ant., 159; Clarac, Mus. Sculpt., IV, 27 and Pl. 558B No. 1194; Zoega, Abh., 148 No. 3; MMM II 482 No. 58bis and fig. 415; RRS I, 295, 5. See fig. 163. Mithras, slaying the bull. The dog licks the blood from the wound; the serpent creeps over the ground; the scprpion at the testicles; the raven got lost together with the flying cloak. The back of the statue is roughly worked. Restorations: Mithras' head and neck, r. arm, l. shoulder and fingers of the l.h.; the bull's muzzle, r. horn (l. horn is lacking), l. foreleg and tail; the foremost part of the base with the dog's body (now lost).