Marcellus, Ma1207

Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Artist/Maker Cleomenes the Athenian (signed)

Description Funeral and honorific statue of Marcus Claudius Marcellus (d. 23 BC), nephew of Augustus, represented as Hermes. Greek marble, ca. 20 BC.

Dimensions H. 1.80 m (5 ft. 11 in.)

Credit line Former collections of pope Sixtus V; purchase by Louis XIV for the Glass Gallery of Versailles, 1664

Accession number Ma 1207 (MR 315)

Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Denon, ground floor, room 23

Photographer/Source fr:Utilisateur:Urban (2004)

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