8-5228 (previous museum number (recataloged from))
Accession number:
Acc.153 and Acc.193
Description:
Hermes (Latin: Mercury) with the infant Dionysos. From a bronze statuette preserved in the Louvre National Museum, Paris. Consult Journal of Hellenic Studies III 107. The work is a free copy of the group by Praxiteles at Olympia.
Donor:
Alfred Emerson and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Gipsformerei, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany
Verbatim coll. place:
Berlin Cast Works
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection date:
ca. 1904
Materials:
Plaster
Person depicted:
Dionysus/Bacchus (Greek and Roman deity) and Hermes (Greek deity)