Hermes / Mercury Bronze On A Marble Base - Grand Tour- After The Antic Of Herculanum.

Seated Hermes, bronze with antique black patina on an italian gary blue marble base.
Italian copy of the first half of the 19th, after an ancient Hellenistic sculptur discovered at Herculaneum.
height 50cm, width 30cm, depth 48cm.

This seated Hermes also called Hermes at rest, assimilated to the roman god Mercury, is a replica of a masterpiece of Hellenistic art. Discovered at the Villa of the Papyrus in Herculaneum in 1758 and kept in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples "This statue was probably the most famous work of art discovered in Herculaneum and Pompeii, in the eighteenth century" ^(1).
This bronze is classified as a roman copy, made before the year 79, of an original Greek bronze from the end of the 4th or the beginning of the 3rd century BC. J.-C. in the tradition of the Greek sculptor Lysippe ⁽²⁾.

Our bronze has a fine carving, precise in the restitution of the details and a patina faithful to that of the ancient one, is very rare in these proportions and materials, it'a an essential art piece for any collection around the ancient Greco-Roman and one of the masterpieces for lovers of the Grand Tours in the nineteenth century.

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Hector Kassar
arslonga.antics@gmail.com

^{(1) according to Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny.
(2) Martin Robertson's classification}