Venus rings on the neck. Sitting alongside the outer left leg is a panther (head unbroken). The presentation of the god with shoulder-length tresses, short chiton and panther skin chosen here is known to us from numerous copies, free reworkings and faint echoes, and can probably be traced back to a Greek original of the 4th century B.C. Reverse coarsely worked and smoothed (with visible tool marks). Left upper arm, lower legs, boots, panther’s body and base reattached. Back of the head and neck area reassembled from several fragments. Diagonal fracture line running across the breast as far as the left shoulder. A plaster restoration of the upper half of the head has since been removed and kept by us. The extraordinary provenance was discovered last year and is most interesting as Randolph Hearst, the famous publishing tycoon (Citizen Kane by Orson Welles) bought it in 1924 from Brummer Gallery in New York. The acquisition notes with a sketch survived showing that the plaster upper half of the head was added 1924.