Mercury

Mercury

after the original by Jean de Bologne

French bronze statue of Mercury as patron god of medicine and healing, on a round Italian marble base and bronze plinth. Mercury carries the caduceus (a staff entwined by two snakes) and wears winged sandals and a petasus (winged cap); stands balanced on one foot upon a column of air emanating from wind god Aeolus. Probably a 19th-century copy after Jean de Bologne, 1564.

24.0" H

Bronze, marble

Gift of Pauline T. Pease

General Collection, Museum Collection, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia

1988.M12.01

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Late 19th century