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LOT 0396
Bronze Copy of The Farnese Hermes
19TH CENTURY A.D.
32 1/4 in. (16.3 kg, 82 cm high).
A bronze statue modelled on the famous Farnese Hermes (now in the British Museum); the god portrayed naturalistically in the round, youthful and nude, a chlamys draped around his shoulders, winged sandals on his feet; discoid base.
ProvenanceFrench collection, 1960s-early 2000s.
From an important Paris gallery, France.
with Marion Antique Auction, USA, 8 June 2019, lot 131.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.11689-199352.
The statue copies a Roman copy of a famous type created in the school of the Greek sculptor Praxiteles in the 4th century B.C. Villa de Papiri. A similar copy exists in the collection of the British Museum, London, under accession no. 1864,1021.1.
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