 The "Borghese Hermaphroditus" was later sold to the occupying French and was moved to The Louvre, where it is on display.The "Sleeping Hermaphroditus" has been described as a good early Imperial Roman copy of a bronze original by the later of the two Hellenistic sculptors named Polycles (working "ca" 155 BC); the original bronze was mentioned in Pliny's "Natural History".The ancient sculpture was discovered in the first decades of the seventeenth century—unearthed in the grounds of Santa Maria della Vittoria, near the Baths of Diocletian and within the bounds of the ancient Gardens of Sallust.