Plaster cast

Museum number:
21-118
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1803 A (original number, Berlin Gipsformerei number - it is cast into the waist inset) and 8-5118 (previous museum number (recataloged from))
Accession number:
Acc.193
Description:
Cast of Hermes at Olympia (Latin: Mercury) by Praxiteles, as restored by Professor Schaper of the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts. Compare with our cast of the more slightly restored original marble. Done in Berlin. Professor Treu and Sculptor Ruhm of Dresden have discovered reason to modify Professor Schaper’s ponderation of the statue very slightly. In setting up the marble, Gruttner gave a horizontal position to the strut between leg and tree trunk. The corrected stand aims its plumb line by the weighted tip of the god’s discarded cloak. New: right arm, a few fillings about face and body of the infant, its right arm, the tibias of Hermes, his left foot. The restoration has also been executed in Carrara marble.
Donor:
Alfred Emerson
Collection place:
Gipsformerei, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany
Verbatim coll. place:
Cast Works of the Royal Museum, Berlin
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Person depicted:
Hermes (Greek deity)
Object type:
archaeology
Accession date:
1905
Department:
Casts and molds
Loans:
S2009-2010 #12 [DEFUNCT]: Academy of Art University (dates unknown)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-118, described as Cast of Hermes at Olympia (Latin: Mercury) by Praxiteles, as restored by Professor Schaper of the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts. Compare with our cast of the more slightly restored original marble. Done in Berlin. Professor Treu and Sculptor Ruhm of Dresden have discovered reason to modify Professor Schaper’s ponderation of the statue very slightly. In setting up the marble, Gruttner gave a horizontal position to the strut between leg and tree trunk. The corrected stand aims its plumb line by the weighted tip of the god’s discarded cloak. New: right arm, a few fillings about face and body of the infant, its right arm, the tibias of Hermes, his left foot. The restoration has also been executed in Carrara marble.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-118, described as Cast of Hermes at Olympia (Latin: Mercury) by Praxiteles, as restored by Professor Schaper of the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts. Compare with our cast of the more slightly restored original marble. Done in Berlin. Professor Treu and Sculptor Ruhm of Dresden have discovered reason to modify Professor Schaper’s ponderation of the statue very slightly. In setting up the marble, Gruttner gave a horizontal position to the strut between leg and tree trunk. The corrected stand aims its plumb line by the weighted tip of the god’s discarded cloak. New: right arm, a few fillings about face and body of the infant, its right arm, the tibias of Hermes, his left foot. The restoration has also been executed in Carrara marble.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-118, described as Cast of Hermes at Olympia (Latin: Mercury) by Praxiteles, as restored by Professor Schaper of the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts. Compare with our cast of the more slightly restored original marble. Done in Berlin. Professor Treu and Sculptor Ruhm of Dresden have discovered reason to modify Professor Schaper’s ponderation of the statue very slightly. In setting up the marble, Gruttner gave a horizontal position to the strut between leg and tree trunk. The corrected stand aims its plumb line by the weighted tip of the god’s discarded cloak. New: right arm, a few fillings about face and body of the infant, its right arm, the tibias of Hermes, his left foot. The restoration has also been executed in Carrara marble.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-118, described as Cast of Hermes at Olympia (Latin: Mercury) by Praxiteles, as restored by Professor Schaper of the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts. Compare with our cast of the more slightly restored original marble. Done in Berlin. Professor Treu and Sculptor Ruhm of Dresden have discovered reason to modify Professor Schaper’s ponderation of the statue very slightly. In setting up the marble, Gruttner gave a horizontal position to the strut between leg and tree trunk. The corrected stand aims its plumb line by the weighted tip of the god’s discarded cloak. New: right arm, a few fillings about face and body of the infant, its right arm, the tibias of Hermes, his left foot. The restoration has also been executed in Carrara marble.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-118, described as Cast of Hermes at Olympia (Latin: Mercury) by Praxiteles, as restored by Professor Schaper of the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts. Compare with our cast of the more slightly restored original marble. Done in Berlin. Professor Treu and Sculptor Ruhm of Dresden have discovered reason to modify Professor Schaper’s ponderation of the statue very slightly. In setting up the marble, Gruttner gave a horizontal position to the strut between leg and tree trunk. The corrected stand aims its plumb line by the weighted tip of the god’s discarded cloak. New: right arm, a few fillings about face and body of the infant, its right arm, the tibias of Hermes, his left foot. The restoration has also been executed in Carrara marble.

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