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Emile Picault - Carrara Marble Sculpture Of Hermes/mercury
Important and rare Carrara marble sculpture of Hermes/Mercury, created by Émile Picault.
The god's muscular body is perfectly sculpted.
The sculpture is executed with remarkable attention to detail.
Hermes is the Greek god recognizable by the wings of his headdress. He wore a petasus (a winged hat). Hermes was the messenger of the gods, but also the god of commerce, thieves, travelers, and speed.
His Roman counterpart is Mercury. Mercury was also depicted wearing a winged helmet and played a similar role in Roman mythology.
André Émile Louis Picault, born in 1833 in Paris and died in Paris in 1922, was a French sculptor. He was a student of the painter Henri Royer. He exhibited at the Salon from 1863 to 1914, where he received an honorable mention in 1883 (Valentin I). Émile Picault is the author of the Monument to Joseph Lakanal erected in Foix in 1882.
His work was a great success with his editions of bronze statuettes among individuals. This very abundant work mainly includes allegorical or patriotic subjects and figures of warriors and mythological heroes, accompanied by sentences in Latin or French. The figure of the Genius, so dear to positivism, is declined several times while the genre figures favor the harmony of bodies over social realism. Some works inspired by the Middle Ages in the taste of troubadour art are treated in a style close to the Florentines (L'Escholier). Émile Picault also produced some portraits of historical figures (Nicolas Flamel, Joan of Arc, Ambroise Paré, Voltaire) or fictional figures (Le Cid, Macbeth, Don César de Bazan, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme).
He died in 1922, on his 89th birthday.
The god's muscular body is perfectly sculpted.
The sculpture is executed with remarkable attention to detail.
Hermes is the Greek god recognizable by the wings of his headdress. He wore a petasus (a winged hat). Hermes was the messenger of the gods, but also the god of commerce, thieves, travelers, and speed.
His Roman counterpart is Mercury. Mercury was also depicted wearing a winged helmet and played a similar role in Roman mythology.
André Émile Louis Picault, born in 1833 in Paris and died in Paris in 1922, was a French sculptor. He was a student of the painter Henri Royer. He exhibited at the Salon from 1863 to 1914, where he received an honorable mention in 1883 (Valentin I). Émile Picault is the author of the Monument to Joseph Lakanal erected in Foix in 1882.
His work was a great success with his editions of bronze statuettes among individuals. This very abundant work mainly includes allegorical or patriotic subjects and figures of warriors and mythological heroes, accompanied by sentences in Latin or French. The figure of the Genius, so dear to positivism, is declined several times while the genre figures favor the harmony of bodies over social realism. Some works inspired by the Middle Ages in the taste of troubadour art are treated in a style close to the Florentines (L'Escholier). Émile Picault also produced some portraits of historical figures (Nicolas Flamel, Joan of Arc, Ambroise Paré, Voltaire) or fictional figures (Le Cid, Macbeth, Don César de Bazan, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme).
He died in 1922, on his 89th birthday.
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