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Title: Bronze statuette of Hermes. Period: Late Hellenistic or Early Imperial. Date: 1st century BCE–1st century CE. Culture: Greek or Roman. Medium: Bronze. Dimensions: H. 11 7/16 in. (29.1 cm) Classification: Bronzes. Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1971. Accession Number: 1971.11.11
Download Free PDF. Hermès Dionysophore. Michel Feugère. Studies in Ancient Art and Civilisation. The ‘Lormier bronze’, named after its earliest known owner, is an exceptional statuette made of copper alloy.
Title: Bronze herm. Period: Imperial. Date: 1st–2nd century CE. Culture: Roman. Medium: Bronze. Dimensions: H.: 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm) Classification: Bronzes. Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1919. Accession Number: 19.192.1
The ‘Lormier bronze’, named after its earliest known owner, is an exceptional statuette made of copper alloy. It is remarkable, both by its subject and its style, of very fine quality; but also by its state of conservation, namely its gilding, which allows us to contemplate, for once, such a statuette close to its original aspect.
Title: Bronze statuette of Hermes. Period: Archaic. Date: 6th century BCE. Culture: Greek, Arcadian. Medium: Bronze. Dimensions: H. 3 3/4 in. (9.6 cm) Classification: Bronzes. Credit Line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971. Accession Number: 1972.118.67
This is a cast of a bronze statuette of Hermes seated on a rock and holding a purse in his right hand. The god, nude, sits on a rock with his left leg advanced and right leg bent back, and twists his torso slightly to his left.
Many surviving Hellenistic and Roman bronze statuettes are variants of lost large-scale works, among them well-known Classical masterpieces. The degree of a statuette’s adherence to a statue type, however, is difficult to assess if not unknowable, even when full-size Roman marble copies exist.
