 In 1620, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Scipione's protégé, was paid sixty "scudi" for making the buttoned mattress upon which the Hermaphroditus reclines, so strikingly realistic that visitors are inclined to give it a testing prod.The sculpture was purchased in 1807 with many other pieces from the Borghese Collection, from principe Camillo Borghese, who had married Pauline Bonaparte, and was transferred to The Louvre, where it inspired Algernon Charles Swinburne's poem "Hermaphroditus" in 1863.A second-century copy of the "Sleeping Hermaphroditus" was found in 1781, and has taken the original's place at the Galleria Borghese.