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It’s been years since we’ve looked at this classic from Columbia Heights. It still makes me wonder what I would do if my neighbor put up a similar sculpture on their front lawn. I guess you just gotta learn to love it.
Category: Lawn Decoration of the Day, Sculpture
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This just begs for yarn bombing.
that would be incredible. some nice, conservative apparel of course.
that is genius! what street is this on?
Get a room!
Looks like pornography to me…Seriously she is laying down and has perky boobies – I call IMPLANTS!
I touched them. They’re much harder than natural.
It looks like he’s trying to stuff her into a bag but her fake boobs keep pulling her upwards.
i love how awesome and tacky it is.
It’s Girard St. Our house is the left one in the top pic. To answer your question, PoP, you’d probably do what we did–just be friends with the guy.
More info please!!! Can you ask your neighbor? There is a great story here.
We live next door. You get used to it. It’s great to see people stop and check it out. Random tourists and out-of-towners will sometimes stop and take pics.
I used to go to a friend’s house a few doors down. We called this “aqua rape” statue.
Is it the Rape of Europa?
Guess not. No bull.
But it does certainly look like one of Zeus’s many such encounters.
Maybe the Rape of Persephone.
Obviously I have too much free time today.
Or, since we are on the subject of rapes which take place in the classics, possibly the Rape of Lucretia?
Another good possibility, yes.
Nah. The male figure is a satyr (notice the horns and hoofs). I’m guessing the female figure is a nymph. Satyrs and nymphs in varous stages of copulation were a favorite subject of many painters and sculptors during the Neoclassical period in mid-to-late 18th century Europe. I’m guessing this is modeled after one such work.
Looks like maybe a reinterpretation of this statue… but I can’t determine from the Flickr photo where the statue is housed, or what its title is:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gimmethefonk/6371480849/in/photostream/
Here we go… seems to be “Satyre et Bacchante,” by Jean-Jacques Pradier, housed in the Louvre:
http://worldvisitguide.com/oeuvre/O0010031.html
Wikipedia on the sculptor and this particular statue:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Pradier
“The cool neoclassical surface finish of [Pradier's] sculptures is charged with an eroticism that their mythological themes can barely disguise. At the Salon of 1834, Pradier’s Satyr and Bacchante created a scandalous sensation. Some claimed to recognize the features of the sculptor and his mistress, Juliette Drouet. When the prudish government of Louis-Philippe refused to purchase it, Count Anatole Demidoff bought it and took it to his palazzo in Florence. (It has since come back to the Louvre).”
Nicely done!
Yes, nicely done. I obviously didn’t have enough free time to notice the hooves and horns or do any research. Thanks!
Super nicely done.
they should have used the money to fix up the lawn…
It’s winter, you know. In the spring the statue is surrounded by beautiful flowers.
I’m in the house to the right @flatsix_dc apparently we are neighbors? Ps love that they got my dead herb garden and solar light in the pic!
I didn’t know that fake boobs have been around since antiquity.
I’ve been trying to find a decent source for a lawn sculpture for a few years now…
DC front yards are perfect for them…anyone know of a source?
http://www.washingtonsculptors.org/