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A FRENCH MARBLE FIGURE OF THE SEATED MERCURY
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A FRENCH MARBLE FIGURE OF THE SEATED MERCURY

AFTER THE MODEL BY JEAN-BAPTISTE PIGALLE, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

Fermé15 March 2017

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A FRENCH MARBLE FIGURE OF THE SEATED MERCURY
AFTER THE MODEL BY JEAN-BAPTISTE PIGALLE, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
24 in. (61 cm) high

Note du spécialiste

The present model is after the original terracotta of Mercury Attaching his Talaria of 1740, by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714-1785), now in the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The French Academy requested a version of the figure in marble, completed in 1741-42, now in the Louvre, Paris. It is upon this that the present plaster model is based.