Sleeping Hermaphrodite

2008 - 2010

sculpture: Belgian Black Marble
base: Carrara Marble, stainless steel, Delrin

sculpture: 18-1/4 x 68-1/8 x 35-1/2 in (46.4 x 173.0 x 90.2 cm)
base: 13-3/8 x 68-1/2 x 35-13/16 in (34.0 x 174.0 x 91.0 cm)
sculpture / base assembly: 31-5/8 x 68-1/2 x 35-13/16 in (80.3 x 174.0 x 91.0 cm)

after the Hermaphrodite Endormi (Ermafrodito Borghese)
Musée du Louvre, Paris (ex Collezione Borghese, Roma)
discovered near the Baths of Diocletian in 1608
figure and drapery Roman Imperial Period (2nd century A.D.) after a Greek original (2nd century B.C.)
figure restorations by David Larique (1619)
bed addition by Gianlorenzo Bernini (1619)