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Graeco-Roman art.
273 a. (I. N. 2798). Sandal-tying Hermes. Statue. Pentelic marble.
II. 1.54, with base 1.62. The nose, part of the right eyebrow, an
area of the hair above the right ear, a piece of the. neck, the right
forearm, the right foot, the rock, the support, most of the plinth,
the left upper arm from shoulder to elbow, the left hand, parts of
the cloak and buttocks, the left lower leg all restored, whereas the
left foot and the adjacent part of the plinth are antique. The head
has been broken off, but belongs to the statue.
The statue was found in 1769 in Hadrian’s villa at Tibur
(Tivoli) and until 1930 stood in Lansdowne House, London.
Despite all its restorations it is the best preserved replica of
a famous statue, for the replicas in Paris and Munich are
even more patched up and furnished with heads that do not
belong, while a torso with the head in the original position,
found at the Athens Acropolis, is unfinished (Arndt-Amelung
733—34).
The figure was originally called Jason but has now received
its correct appelation, Hermes, who is represented tying-his
“winged sandals” preparatory to hastening off with a mes-
sage from Zeus; while doing so he rises partly and listens
to a new message from the king of the gods (see the listening
expression on the head No. 273). As new studies have shown,
this is the original motive, but it is not impossible that the
statue may also have been used as an ordinary picture of a
young sportsman in the Palaestra (see Picard in Bull. Corr.
Hell. LV 1931 p. 15 seq. and pl. I).
The proportions and the modelling recall figures of Lysip-
pus, though the latter are harder and drier, so that the
reference of the original to a pupil of the greatest sculptor of
the 4th century is perhaps just as feasible.
2. Tillseg til Billedtavler pl. VI. A. Michaelis: Ancient Marbles in Great
Britain p. 464 seqq. No. 85. K. Lange: Das Motiv des aufgestiitzten Fusses p. 2
seqq. Franklin P. Johnson: Lysippos p. 170 seqq. with bibliography. See also
p. 316,87. Catalogue of Lansdowne sale No. 49. Susserott: Griech. Plastik des 4.
Jahrh. p. 192 note 237. Kleiner: Tanagrafiguren p. 234. Arch. Anz. 1941 p. 563,
note 1, Id. David Robinson, Hesperia, Supplement VIII 1949 S. 317 and pl.
42,21 b.
274. (I. N. 1464). Hermes. Head. M.
II. 0.26. The front of the petasus, upper part of the wings, tip of
the nose new in plaster. The entire head with the exception of a small
portion of the petasus at the back of the neck so polished and touched
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273 a. (I. N. 2798). Sandal-tying Hermes. Statue. Pentelic marble.
II. 1.54, with base 1.62. The nose, part of the right eyebrow, an
area of the hair above the right ear, a piece of the. neck, the right
forearm, the right foot, the rock, the support, most of the plinth,
the left upper arm from shoulder to elbow, the left hand, parts of
the cloak and buttocks, the left lower leg all restored, whereas the
left foot and the adjacent part of the plinth are antique. The head
has been broken off, but belongs to the statue.
The statue was found in 1769 in Hadrian’s villa at Tibur
(Tivoli) and until 1930 stood in Lansdowne House, London.
Despite all its restorations it is the best preserved replica of
a famous statue, for the replicas in Paris and Munich are
even more patched up and furnished with heads that do not
belong, while a torso with the head in the original position,
found at the Athens Acropolis, is unfinished (Arndt-Amelung
733—34).
The figure was originally called Jason but has now received
its correct appelation, Hermes, who is represented tying-his
“winged sandals” preparatory to hastening off with a mes-
sage from Zeus; while doing so he rises partly and listens
to a new message from the king of the gods (see the listening
expression on the head No. 273). As new studies have shown,
this is the original motive, but it is not impossible that the
statue may also have been used as an ordinary picture of a
young sportsman in the Palaestra (see Picard in Bull. Corr.
Hell. LV 1931 p. 15 seq. and pl. I).
The proportions and the modelling recall figures of Lysip-
pus, though the latter are harder and drier, so that the
reference of the original to a pupil of the greatest sculptor of
the 4th century is perhaps just as feasible.
2. Tillseg til Billedtavler pl. VI. A. Michaelis: Ancient Marbles in Great
Britain p. 464 seqq. No. 85. K. Lange: Das Motiv des aufgestiitzten Fusses p. 2
seqq. Franklin P. Johnson: Lysippos p. 170 seqq. with bibliography. See also
p. 316,87. Catalogue of Lansdowne sale No. 49. Susserott: Griech. Plastik des 4.
Jahrh. p. 192 note 237. Kleiner: Tanagrafiguren p. 234. Arch. Anz. 1941 p. 563,
note 1, Id. David Robinson, Hesperia, Supplement VIII 1949 S. 317 and pl.
42,21 b.
274. (I. N. 1464). Hermes. Head. M.
II. 0.26. The front of the petasus, upper part of the wings, tip of
the nose new in plaster. The entire head with the exception of a small
portion of the petasus at the back of the neck so polished and touched
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