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Victor Rousseau (1865-1954) was a Belgian sculptor and medalist. In 1890 he was awarded the Godecharle Prize and embarked on a tour of England, France, Italy and Greece. Today, his works can be found in the collections of the Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts & Ecole d'Art Décoratif, the Musée d'Art Modern, Brussels, and the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp.
The original cult statue of Serapis was sculpted by Bryaxis in Alexandria between 286-287 B.C. and depicted the god with luxurious curls that were characterized by three locks that fell vertically over his forehead (see A. Stewart, Greek Sculpture, p. 203). However, as B.S. Ridgeway informs (p. 95 in Hellenistic Sculpture I), the spread of Serapis’ cult throughout the Graeco-Roman world makes it “impossible, in the present state of our knowledge, to determine which cult image was copied by the extant replicas.” While this depiction of Serapis is otherwise unattested, Ridgeway notes (op. cit., p. 96) that depictions of the god with a fringe, as shown here, was “greatly preferred in Roman times” and that the god is primarily identified by his attributes, namely the modius. Here, the present head is carved flatly at the top, indicating that the attribute was once present.
The original cult statue of Serapis was sculpted by Bryaxis in Alexandria between 286-287 B.C. and depicted the god with luxurious curls that were characterized by three locks that fell vertically over his forehead (see A. Stewart, Greek Sculpture, p. 203). However, as B.S. Ridgeway informs (p. 95 in Hellenistic Sculpture I), the spread of Serapis’ cult throughout the Graeco-Roman world makes it “impossible, in the present state of our knowledge, to determine which cult image was copied by the extant replicas.” While this depiction of Serapis is otherwise unattested, Ridgeway notes (op. cit., p. 96) that depictions of the god with a fringe, as shown here, was “greatly preferred in Roman times” and that the god is primarily identified by his attributes, namely the modius. Here, the present head is carved flatly at the top, indicating that the attribute was once present.