This important, over life-size, Renaissance bronze, the only example of this size in this country, was brought from Italy to England by the 1st Viscount Astor in 1896 and placed on the parterre at the end of the formal garden at Cliveden. In the early 1990s, the National Trust took the decision to remove the bronze from its outdoor location due to its extreme rarity and consequent high value, and replace it with a bronze replica. We were commmissioned jointly by the Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Trust to remove the sculpture to the studio for conservation, and at the same time mould and cast a replica in bronze for the parterre at Cliveden. We made a silicon rubber mould with a bolted, fibreglass casing and cast the new sculpture in bronze using the lost wax method. A curatorial decision was made to also replicate the advanced natural patina of the original sculpture as it had appeared before removal from Cliveden, though without the disfiguring black marks which can make the sculptural form difficult to read. The natural patina was also retained on the original sculpture, which is now displayed in the Victoria and Albert Museum's sculpture gallery.