satyr

Etched with charcoal or black chalk on plaster and measuring about 40 by 50 inches, art historians have identified the figure — who is well built, but a little wizened — as a “triton,” a god of the sea, or a “satyr,” part man part beast.

The lowering into place of the work, titled “Venus with a Nymph and Satyr” at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, came courtesy of a chain pull attached to a huge gantry.

“Venus” was originally created as a fountain, with water spouting out of the carved dolphins below the nymph and satyr.

Grover, it turns out, is a satyr, charged with protecting Percy; Mr. Brunner is really a centaur named Chiron.

Here, with his dopey expressions fused to a satyr’s body, he makes you nervous the way Malcolm McDowell did after he was reformed in “A Clockwork Orange.”