The sculpture depicting a Satyr at Rest is a replica of a famous statue by the Greek sculptor Praxiteles, known due to the many copies made of it. Those closest to the Royal Castle sculpture are the statue in the Hermitage in St Petersburg, the Prado in Madrid and Lateran Museum in Rome. The Warsaw sculpture depicts a type rare among other surviving examples as the youth is shown wearing a wreath on his head. The previous dating of the sculpture to the 2nd century AD, was verified by Tomasz Mikocki, according to whom the stylistic traits of the Satyr allow a more accurate dating to the 2nd quarter of the 2nd century AD. Kazimierz Michałowski identified the marble used to make the sculpture as being from Mount Pentelicus. The sculpture was formerly in the Winter Palace in St Petersburg. In 1928 is was transferred to Poland as compensation for Michał Ludwik Pac’s collection of antiquities, plundered by the Russians in 1831. Until 1939 it was exhibited at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, then stored for safekeeping at the National Museum in Warsaw. From 1953 on permanent exhibition in the department of ancient art. In 1988 it was returned to the Royal Castle in Warsaw.