A female satyr forming a caryatid in chased, patinated and gilded bronze. She is shown with her legs crossed and tied with a ribbon, her belt decorated with a garland of ivy, a tambourine held by a ribbon on her right side and a draped veil falling from her left shoulder, her arms resting on her head. 19th century. Height 85 cm This model was made by Jean Joseph Foucou (1739-1821) from a design by François Joseph Belanger and was used for a mantelpiece, the first of which was made for the Duchesse de Mazarin in 1781 by Pierre Gouthière. Several other models were made in 1780/85 by Gouthière and François Rémond, one for the banker Paul-Louis de Thelusson at the Hôtel de Massa (now in the Metropolitan Museum), another commissioned by the Prince of Wales for Cartlon Housse and now in the collection of the King of England at Buckimgham Palace and another of which only the caryatids remain in the 1820s at Blythswood House, Scotland, then in the collection of Archibald Douglas Campbell (1793-1868).