Mercury

1st century BCE-1st century CE (Roman Imperial) H: 5 11/16 in. (14.5 cm) Citation

Standing with the weight on the left leg and the right foot to the rear, Mercury holds a purse in his outstretched right hand. The left hand, which is close to the body, held a caduceus. Drapery, probably a chlamys, is thrown over the left shoulder falling to back and front, c...

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Guilhou collection, France, by 1905, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, Collection de M. Guilhou: Objects Antiques, Hotel Drouot, 16-18 March 1905, p. 45, no. 302, illust. [said to be from Boscoreale, Matrone excavations at Fondo Bottaro]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1905, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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