Hypnos and Thanatos

The Greek God of peaceful death, Thanatos - relief by Johann Gottfried Schadow for a side panel on the tomb of Count Alexander von der Mark.

The figure is similar to the sculpture of the Thanatos that appears below. This statue is a Roman copy of an original statue from the school of Pasiteles. It dates from the end of 1st century BC. Currently on display in Room 31 of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens.

This statue, along with another of the Greek God of sleep, Hypnos, served as a model for the following Spanish statue.

Original Dating: Eclectic composition of the early 1st Century. AD using Greek models from the 5th and 4 Century BC Location: 1839 from: Madrid, Prado Museum, Inv. 28E 

Origin: Made of Rome. (In the 17th century in the Ludovisi collection, 1724-1839 at the summer residence of the Spanish King Philip V in San Ildefonso) 

The following is a Roman copy of a Greek statue of Hypnos.