AFTER THE MODEL BY JEAN-BAPTISTE PIGALLE, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH MARBLE FIGURE OF THE SEATED MERCURY
AFTER THE MODEL BY JEAN-BAPTISTE PIGALLE, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
24 in. (61 cm) high

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Lot Essay

The present model is after the original terracotta of Mercury Attaching his Talaria of 1740, by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714-1785), now in the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The French Academy requested a version of the figure in marble, completed in 1741-42, now in the Louvre, Paris. It is upon this that the present plaster model is based.

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