French school; end of the 19th century

French school; late 19th century.
"Young satyr with goat".
Bronze and marble.
Measurements: 20,5 x 21 x 13 cm; 29 x 30 x 18 cm (with base).
Sculptural group made in bronze in which a young man is represented next to a goat, thus deducing that it is a sculpture that recreates the bacchic cult, which was so much to the taste of the time. Following the canons of the Belle Époque period, art was interested in conveying the harmonious sense of classical sculpture, recovering its mythologies, re-reading them, and at the same time advancing solutions that would be developed by Art Nouveau. The bronze was worked to skilfully reproduce plant textures and qualities.
Knowledge of the Dionysian cult has survived to the present day thanks to Euripides and his play The Bacchae. Related to the Maenads, the satyrs form the "Dionysian retinue" that accompanies the god Dionysus. They are depicted in various forms; the most common (and basically Roman) is that of a creature half man half ram, with pointed ears and horns on his head, abundant hair, a flat nose, a goat's tail and a permanent priapism. According to some versions of the myth, they would have been the fathers of the satyrs (of whom Silenus would then be their grandfather). All three were in the retinue of Dionysus when he travelled to India and, in fact, Astreo was the driver of his chariot.

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