Standing Mercury, Giustiniani collection
Standing Mercury, Giustiniani collection
Standing Mercury, Giustiniani collection
Standing Mercury, Giustiniani collection

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Standing Mercury, Giustiniani collection,

1752–56

Augustin Pajou, French, 1730–1809
x1948-433

Information

Title
Standing Mercury, Giustiniani collection
Dates

1752–56

Maker
Augustin Pajou
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over black chalk
Dimensions
27.7 x 15.7 cm. (10 7/8 x 6 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Dan Fellows Platt, Class of 1895
Object Number
x1948-433
Inscription
in brown ink, lower center: au palais justini / ani in Roma in graphite, verso lower left: Pajou 16 20/ [in Platt hand] in graphite, verso lower right: E 44 [in circle with X above in red pencil] | 1925 [in Platt hand] in graphite, verso lower right: 7354 [in circle]
Marks/Labels/Seals
Stamp in blue, verso lower left: D.F.P. [in circle] [Lugt 750a]
Culture
French
Type
drawings
Materials
laid paper, wash, black chalk, ink
Subject
gods, nudes, statues

Possibly from one of three albums of Pajou drawings that remained in possession of his son Jacques-Augustin-Catherine Pajou (1766–1828); purchased, probably in London, in 1925 by Dan Fellows Platt, stamp (L. 750a), verso, lower left, in blue.

Mercury: ancient statue in Palazzo Giustiniani, Rome, now at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts

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