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The Getty Faun Holding a Goat Inscribed “N. Coustou 1715”: A Nineteenth-Century Forgery after Saly’s Reception Piece at the Academy

The marble Faun Holding a Goat that French sculptor Jacques-François-Joseph Saly (1717–76) carved for his reception at the Académie royale in Paris in 1751 passed into private hands after the French Revolution. In 1922, it was proposed that the marble Faun Holding a Goat inscribed “NL Coustou fecit 1715” and first published in 1865 was Saly’s reception piece, with a spurious inscription added later. It is on the basis of this hypothesis that the J. Paul Getty Museum acquired this statue in 1985, although another marble Faun Holding a Goat, not signed but attributed to Saly, entered the collection of the Cognacq-Jay Museum in 1929. A study of their respective provenance history, compositional characteristics and stylistic qualities, in comparison with other visual material, demonstrates that the Cognacq-Jay Museum statue is Saly’s reception piece while the J. Paul Getty Museum marble is a nineteenth-century forgery.