AFTER PIERRE I LEGROS (1629-1714): A LATE 18TH / EARLY 19TH CENTURY FRENCH BRONZE GROUP OF SILENUS, PAN AND A NEREID 'THE DRUNKEN SILENUS' the drunken figure of Silenus supported by the nude Nereid and Pan, a tambourine at his feet, on a naturalistic integral base, dark brown patination with brassy high points, raised on a later black marble circular plinth, the bronze 18.5cm high, 23.5cm high overall Museum Comparable: An example of this bronze is in the Wallace Collection, London. The Wallace Collection note that the composition derives from early 17th century drawings by Sir Peter Paul Rubens but that the bronze is likely to have been cast in the workshops of Pierre Legros. Auction Comparable: A near identical figure of the same size and also catalogued as late 18th / early 19th century was sold at Christie's, Amsterdam, 22 September 2009, lot 68.