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CATALOGUE OF SCULPTUEE.
The forehead is broad, with prominent brows, slightly
knit; the hair is short and curling, and is in part only
roughly sketched out. The right leg touches the trunk
of a tree.
This statue is one of several replicas of a lost original
which must have been regarded as a work of importance.
In the other examples, also, the figure is of the type of
Hermes. In the case, however, of a statue which was
found at Andros, and which is now in the National
Museum at Athens, the sculpture once stood on a tomb.
Since it has a snake wound round the tree stump, and
since the caduceus and winged sandals are wanting, that
figure must probably be regarded as the statue of a dead
person heroified under the type of Hermes. Compare the
fable (No. 30) of Babrius, in which a sculptor carves a
figure which one man wishes to buy for a stele for his
deceased son, while another man wants it for a god.
Hermes himself remonstrates at the ambiguous purpose.
The figure from Andros is of better work than the copies
which were found in Italy.
Since the discovery of the Hermes and Dionysos of
Praxiteles (cf. No. 2696) at Olympia, there can be little
doubt that the original from which the present Graeco-
Eoman statue was copied was by Praxiteles, or by a
sculptor of his school.
The sinuously-curved pose of the figure is the same in
each, with only such modifications as are required by the
absence of a support under the left arm. The heads are
very similar, both in type and in features.—Farnese Coll.
Veined marble. Height (without plinth), 6 feet 7^ inches. Restored :
left foot and leg, up to the knee, right foot as far as instep,
including most of the wings (of which, however, a part is
original), left hand, part of caduceus and drapery in front of
left shoulder, tip of nose, chin, and under-lip. The right
arm is mended.
When Marten van Heemskerck studied in Rome (circa 1535). this
CATALOGUE OF SCULPTUEE.
The forehead is broad, with prominent brows, slightly
knit; the hair is short and curling, and is in part only
roughly sketched out. The right leg touches the trunk
of a tree.
This statue is one of several replicas of a lost original
which must have been regarded as a work of importance.
In the other examples, also, the figure is of the type of
Hermes. In the case, however, of a statue which was
found at Andros, and which is now in the National
Museum at Athens, the sculpture once stood on a tomb.
Since it has a snake wound round the tree stump, and
since the caduceus and winged sandals are wanting, that
figure must probably be regarded as the statue of a dead
person heroified under the type of Hermes. Compare the
fable (No. 30) of Babrius, in which a sculptor carves a
figure which one man wishes to buy for a stele for his
deceased son, while another man wants it for a god.
Hermes himself remonstrates at the ambiguous purpose.
The figure from Andros is of better work than the copies
which were found in Italy.
Since the discovery of the Hermes and Dionysos of
Praxiteles (cf. No. 2696) at Olympia, there can be little
doubt that the original from which the present Graeco-
Eoman statue was copied was by Praxiteles, or by a
sculptor of his school.
The sinuously-curved pose of the figure is the same in
each, with only such modifications as are required by the
absence of a support under the left arm. The heads are
very similar, both in type and in features.—Farnese Coll.
Veined marble. Height (without plinth), 6 feet 7^ inches. Restored :
left foot and leg, up to the knee, right foot as far as instep,
including most of the wings (of which, however, a part is
original), left hand, part of caduceus and drapery in front of
left shoulder, tip of nose, chin, and under-lip. The right
arm is mended.
When Marten van Heemskerck studied in Rome (circa 1535). this