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| Roman Empire Torso of Dancing Faun 1st century AD marble Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Jan de Bisschop Dancing Faun (after ancient Roman statue in the Tribuna of the Uffizi, Florence) ca. 1663-68 etching Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Doccia Manufactory, Florence Dancing Faun (after ancient Roman statue in the Tribuna of the Uffizi, Florence) ca. 1750 porcelain statuette Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Giovanni Battista Foggini Dancing Faun (after ancient Roman statue in the Tribuna of the Uffizi, Florence) ca. 1700 bronze statuette Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Anonymous Italian Sculptor Dancing Faun (after ancient Roman statue in the Tribuna of the Uffizi, Florence) ca. 1750 ivory statuette Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Cavaliere d'Arpino Faun with Garland before 1640 drawing Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Jacopo de' Barbari Two Fauns ca. 1501-1503 engraving British Museum |
from The Song of the Happy Shepherd
The woods of Arcady are dead,
And over is their antique joy;
Of old the world on dreaming fed,
Grey Truth is now her painted toy;
Yet still she turns her restless head:
But O, sick children of the world,
Of all the many changing things
In dreary dancing past us whirled
To the cracked tune that Chronos sings,
Words alone are certain good.
* * *
I must be gone: there is a grave
Where daffodil and lily wave,
And I would please the hapless faun
Buried under the sleepy ground,
With mirthful song before the dawn.
His shouting days with mirth were crowned,
And still I dream he treads the lawn,
Walking ghostly in the dew,
Pierced by my glad singing through,
My songs of old earth's dreamy youth:
But ah! she dreams not now . . .
– William Butler Yeats (1889)
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| Marco da Ravenna Faun with Tiger (Statue in Niche) ca. 1510-27 engraving British Museum |
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| Anonymous British Photographer Sculpture of Dancing Faun by Eugène-Louis Lequesne on display at the Great Exhibition, London 1851 salted paper print Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini Faun teased by Children ca. 1616-17 marble Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| follower of Jan van Logteren Medallion with Head of a Faun ca. 1720-30 marble Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Medallion with Antique Statue of a Faun ca. 1773 jasperware Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Hellenistic Greek Sculptor Barberini Faun ca. 220 BC with extensive restoration in 17th-century Rome marble Glyptothek, Munich (acquired by Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria in 1820) |
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| Jacopo Tintoretto Hercules expelling the Faun from the bed of Omphale 1585 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |