Painting removed from a wall of a room, possibly a triclinium or dining room, in a house in Pompeii in 1749. Centauress carrying a young man, playing the lyre with one hand and clashing cymbals with the other. Copperplate engraved by Tommaso Piroli from his own "Antichita di Ercolano" (Antiquities of Herculaneum), Rome, 1789. Italian artist and engraver Piroli (1752-1824) published six volumes between 1789 and 1807 documenting the murals and bronzes found in Heraculaneum and Pompeii.

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