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The life-size standing "Meleagro", from Palazzo Fusconi-Pighini, sometimes identified in the 16th and 17th centuries as an Adonis (who was a victim of a boar rather than its master) was recorded in 1546 among the most beautiful in Rome, not excluding the antiquities of the Cortile del Belvedere.
"Meleagro" was in the house of the doctor to three popes, Francesco Fusconi from Norcia, whose Roman palazzo faced Palazzo Farnese.
Meleagro was engraved in all the anthologies of antiquities, and copied by Pierre Lepautre for Louis XIV at Marly.
The original remained with Fusconi's eventual Pighini heirs until 1770, when it was purchased by Pope Clement XIV as one of the founding pieces for his new museum in the Vatican.
It was among the select group of sculptures triumphantly removed by Napoleon to Paris, under terms of the Treaty of Tolentino (1797) but returned after Napoleon's fall.
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