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| Keywords: Roman - Mercury - Walters 541482.jpg The Roman god Mercury was the messenger for Jupiter supreme among the pagan gods The protector of travelers and merchants he is shown with wings on his head indicating his swift flight through the air and a purse in his right hand In his left hand he probably held the staff typically carried by messenger gods In the southern Netherlands during the 1600s Mercury was celebrated as protector of commerce and due to his supposed eloquence protector of the arts The figure type is derived from Greek statuary of the classical period This antique bronze is also of a type upon which forgeries were based in the 1500s; a similar statuette now considered to be from the early 1500s was among the antiquities in a famous collection in Basel Switzerland by 1587 Rubens drew a comparable statuette in an Antwerp collection before 1600; it is lost so its authenticity as ancient is not established century 1 AD Imperial bronze cm 14 accession number 54 1482 21129 Found at Alexandria Dikran Kelekian New York and Paris Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1922 place of origin Rome Italy Walters Art Museum license Ancient Roman sculptures in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Purses in art | ||||
