Bronze Hermes After: Polykleitos (Greek, active ca. 450–415 B.C.)

ca. 450–20 B.C. (original); 1st century A.D. (copy)

Ancient Art

On view, 1st floor, Ancient Art
Medium

Hollow cast bronze, arms and head cast separately; eyes inlaid with silver; single nipple inlaid with copper.

Dimensions

4 3/8 × 1 5/16 × 13/16 in. (11.1 × 3.4 × 2.1 cm)

Credit Line

Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903, Fund

Accession Number

1981.1.1

Culture

Roman, after a Greek original

Period

Classical (original); Roman (copy)

Classification

Sculpture

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
McAlpine Ancient Art, London; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., acquired from the above, 1981.
Bibliography
  • Susan B. Matheson, "Ancient Greek Bronzes at Yale," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2004), 49, ill
  • Carlos Picon, Polykleitos, the Doryphoros, and Tradition, ed. Warren G. Moon (Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995), 235
  • Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 265, ill
  • Susan B. Matheson, "A Bronze Hermes in the Polykletian Style," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (Winter 1983), 14–21, fig. 1–3
  • "Acquisitions 1981," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 38, no. 3 (Winter 1983), 70
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States

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