Artist/Maker Unknown
Colossal bust of Zeus known as "Jupiter of Versailles". Found in 1525 near the Porta del Popolo in Rome. Given in 1623 to Louis XIV, who asked Jacques Drouilly to transform it into a herm pillar. Marble, 2nd century AD.
Dimensions H. 3.85 m (12 ft. 7 ½ in.)
Credit line Seized during the French Revolution, 1798
Accession number Ma 78 (MR 251)
Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities, Denon, ground floor, room A
Photographer Jastrow (2006)
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