2770 - Seated Hermes from Herculaneum, bronze, with a black and dark olive patina. A large 19th-century “Grand Tour” object commissioned in Italy, modeled after the famous, well-preserved ancient figure discovered in 1758 at the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum, which has been a showpiece at the National Museum in Naples since 1819. This figure is probably the most famous work of art discovered in the 18th century, after it was published in four large engravings in 1771. It is a Roman copy (made before 79 CE) of a Greek bronze original from the late 4th or early 3rd century BCE, in the tradition or school of Lysippus. Height: 48 cm.

Seated Hermes from Herculaneum, bronze, with a black and dark olive patina. A large 19th-century “Grand Tour” object commissioned in Italy, modeled after the famous, well-preserved ancient figure discovered in 1758 at the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum, which has been a showpiece at the National Museum in Naples since 1819. This figure is probably the most famous work of art discovered in the 18th century, after it was published in four large engravings in 1771. It is a Roman copy (made before 79 CE) of a Greek bronze original from the late 4th or early 3rd century BCE, in the tradition or school of Lysippus. Height: 48 cm. Dark-patinated bronze after the Roman bronze figure “Seated Hermes” found at the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum in 1758, housed in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples since 1819. Italian 19th-century cast.