Hope Dionysus
The Hope Dionysus is a statue of Dionysus, the god of wine, wearing a panther skin and casually stretching his left arm over a smaller figure of a woman, in a Neo Attic or archaic pose.
This statue, 82 in. high, dates to between 27 BC and 68 AD. It was once owned by the 18th-century British antiquities collector Thomas Hope, and later belonged to a descendant of Benjamin Franklin, before being acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1990.
