Hope Dionysus

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The Hope Dionysus is a 82 1/4 in. (2.1 m) high statue of Dionysus, the god of wine, wearing a panther skin and casually stretching his left arm over a smaller figure of a woman, who is Neo Attic or archaic in pose.[1]

It dates to between 27 BC and 68 AD. It was once owned by the 18th Century English antiquities collector Thomas Hope, hence the name, and later belonged to a descendant of Benjamin Franklin, before being acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1990.[2]