Editing Praxiteles (section)

===Apollo Sauroktonos===
[[Image:Apollo Saurocton Louvre.jpg|thumb|200px|The Louvre ''Apollo Sauroctonos'']]
Other works that appear to be copies of Praxiteles' sculpture express the same gracefulness in repose and indefinable charm as the ''Hermes and the Infant Dionysus''.  Among the most notable of these are the ''[[Apollo Sauroctonos|Apollo Sauroktonos]]'', or the lizard-slayer, which portrays a youth leaning against a tree and idly striking with an arrow at a lizard.  Several Roman copies from the 1st century are known including those at the [[Louvre]] Museum, the [[Vatican Museums]], and the [[National Museums Liverpool]].

On June 22, 2004, the [[Cleveland Museum of Art]] (CMA), announced the acquisition of an [[Cleveland Apollo|ancient bronze sculpture]] of ''Apollo Sauroktonos.''  The work is alleged to be the only near-complete original work by Praxiteles, though the dating and attribution of the sculpture will continue to be studied. The work was to be included in the 2007 Praxiteles exhibition organized by the Louvre Museum in Paris, but pressure from [[Greece]], which disputes the work's provenance and legal ownership, caused the French to exclude it from the show.